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New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English - an acoustic analysis of early pop music recordings from Ghana

dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Sebastianen
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-12T12:35:32Z
dc.date.available2015-06-12T12:35:32Z
dc.date.issued2012-10-21en
dc.identifier.issn1731-7533en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/9644
dc.description.abstractI will present first results of an acoustic analysis of Ghanaian “Highlife” songs from the 1950s to 1960s. My results show that vowel subsystems in the 1950s and 1960s show a different kind of variation than in present-day Ghanaian English. Particularly the STRUT lexical set is realized as /a, ɔ/ in the Highlife-corpus. Today, it is realized with three different vowels in Ghanaian English, /a, ε, ɔ/ (Huber 2004: 849). A particular emphasis will also be on the way Praat (Boersma and Weenink 2011) can be used to analyze music recordings.en
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegoen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch in Language;10en
dc.rightsThis content is open access.en
dc.titleNew ways of analysing the history of varieties of English - an acoustic analysis of early pop music recordings from Ghanaen
dc.page.number123-131en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationJustus Liebig University, Giessenen
dc.identifier.eissn2083-4616
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dc.identifier.doi10.2478/v10015-011-0045-6en


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