quarta-feira, 29 de agosto de 2007

NEW YORK: The New York City Accent: History and Change

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1046865

Website's authors: NPR - National Public Radio. Robert Siegel.
Audio file of an interview with William Labov, made in March 12, 1999. He presents some of his records of New Yorkers' speech, discussing changes in the prestige speech, influences and boundaries of this variety, specially concerning the pronunciation of the post-vowel "r". This is a captivating file as it provides a wide range of speech examples as well as valuable comments made by one of the major linguists in the field. However, you must have an updated audio program to listen to the 12:20 minute interview.

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