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Jamaican Creole Prosody     

 

One part of this project focuses on elements of word prosody, measuring/quantifying the differences between the stressed and unstressed vowels and syllables in Jamaican Creole. The other part of this  project focuses on annotating the intonation of utterances in spontaneous speech. We work in an Autosegmental Metrical framework of intonational phonology.

Research Personnel:
Jade Comfort (Directed Research) - Linguistics major (graduated)
Kate Leeds (Directed Research) - Linguistics major (graduated)
Jihyun Kim -Graduate student in Linguistics (graduated)           
Fawn Draucker - Graduate student in Linguistics
Erin Donnelly - First Experiences in Research program & Linguistics major - graduated
Joy Horner  - First Experiences in Research program & Linguistics Major


African American English Prosody      



Data for this project are from the Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project and were collected by Trista Pennington,  as part of an NSF funded  project to Barbara Johnstone.

This project focuses on a description of some of the prosodic features of Pittsburgh AAE (PAAE), focusing on whether intonational patterns attributed to African Americans (cf. Jun and Foreman, 1996 and Cole, Thomas, Britt & Cogshall 2005) and are reflected in the speech of women in Pittsburgh. As should be clear, the project at this time is restricted to the speech of African American Women.

Research Personnel:
Stephen Deno (Directed Research) - Linguistics major (graduated)
Laura Herrmann (Research Volunteer) - Linguistics major (graduated)
Jacqueline Schaffer (UPitt First Experiences in Research program) - Linguistics/English major
Zoe (Luk Pei Sui)  - Graduate student in Linguistics


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