Indexicality and experience: Exploring the meanings of /aw/-monophthongization in Pittsburgh

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-33

  Johnstone, Barbara ^a,b   Kiesling, Scott F ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialect awareness; Experience; Indexicality; Phenomenology; Pittsburgh; Place identitity

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949094897     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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