CLCC Results: 20th Century African American English
Phonetics: A Comparison of White and Blue Collar African American and European American Vowel Systems in Columbus (2 Papers Total)
Durian, David, Jennifer Schumacher, and Melissa Reynard. 2007. Apart and yet a part: Social class, convergence, and the vowel systems of Columbus, OH AA(V)E and EAE. Manuscript. (PDF)/(PPT)
Durian, David. Robin Dodsworth, and Jennifer Schumacher. 2010. Convergence in blue collar Columbus, Ohio African American and White vowel systems? In Malcah Yeager-Dror and Erik R. Thomas (Eds.). AAE speakers and their participation in local sound changes: A comparative study. Publication of the American Dialect Society, 94. Durham, NC: Duke Univeristy Press. pp. 161-190. (PDF)
Phonetics: A Comparison of African American and European American /l/ vocalization patterns in Columbus
Durian, David. 2008. The vocalization of /l/ in urban blue collar Columbus, OH AAVE: A quantitative sociophonetic analysis. The Ohio State Working Papers in Linguistics, 58:31-53. (PDF)