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A diachronic perspective on interspeaker covariation in sound change

1-S-5 Green Hall 1-S-5 Green Hall, Princeton

Philadelphia English has been undergoing multiple vowel changes throughout the twentieth century. Using data from the Philadelphia Neighborhood Corpus (PNC), Labov et al. (2013) demonstrate that some of these changes reversed direction mid-century while others continued in a single direction. In Tamminga (2019), I show that among today’s young women, there is significant interspeaker covariation […]

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