Research
- Columbus European American English
- Columbus African American English
- Chicago Suburban Adolescent English
The Central Ohio Dialect (COD) Survey (2004-Ongoing)
Call for Subjects (Information on how to participate in the survey.)
A Century of Language Change in Columbus (CLCC) Project (Site contains all of my relevant Columbus European American English research. See the "CLCC Results" section for recent papers, presentations, and work in progress from my dissertation.)
Columbus 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. (2009). 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. (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)
The Suburban Chicago Adolescent Sociolect Project (1997-1999)
The Suburban Chicago Adolescent Sociolect Project (SCASP) was a field recording project I carried out in March, 1997. During the course of the project, I obtained data from 19 adolescent speakers of a sociolect spoken in the Chicago Suburb of Homewood-Flossmoor. The speakers, ranging from ages 13-23, were recorded via a series of 19 sociolingusitic interviews. Additionally, a series of naturally occurring conversations elicited from a subgroup of the speakers were recorded at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, IL, during an outing in March 1997. The tapes from this outing, now referred as the "zoo study" are comprised of several hours of conversation rich with sociolectal, performative, and stylistic variation.
Related Papers and Audio Data
Papers
Lane, Lisa Ann, and David Durian. (1997). Linguistic individuation and conformity among Suburban Chicago adolescents. Paper presented at NWAV(E) 26 in Laval, Canada. Abstract (PDF)/ Paper (PDF)
Recorded Data (MP3s)
Great Ape House--"Zoo Tape" Excerpt 1 (see Lane/Durian (1997) for transcript) (Lincoln Park "Zoo Tape," Recorded March 8, 1997)
This audio tape excerpt is referenced as excerpt 1 in Lane & Durian (1997). Click on the link above to listen to this excerpt (To download excerpt, right click on the link and choose "Save As.")
Llamas --"Zoo Tape" Excerpt 2 (see Lane/Durian (1997) for transcript) (Lincoln Park "Zoo Tape," Recorded March 8, 1997)
This audio tape excerpt is referenced as excerpt 2 in Lane & Durian (1997). Click on the link above to listen to this excerpt (To download excerpt, right click on the link and choose "Save As.")
Hot Chocolate --"Zoo Tape" Excerpt 3 (Lincoln Park "Zoo Tape," Recorded March 8, 1997)
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