Creaky voice in American English (was: /S/ /Z/ /tS/ etc.)

1 Sep 2006 04:47:37 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
in sci.lang:
Your claim about "American creaky voice English" was exposed as a lie
months ago. Why do you repeat it?

[Source of info below suppressed by popular demand and to protect the
innocent]
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American English has some regional differences
[...]
California
[...]
Particularly among young female speakers, [...], and laryngealization
or "creaky voice" of words in phrase-final position.
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[Source revealed]:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/225139_nwspeak20.html
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Contrary to belief, local linguists say Northwest has distinctive
dialect.
[...]
Listen for the creaky voice, the strong "s" and the "low-back merger."
[..]
Creaky Voice: Many locals, especially women, use it. Listen
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[Link from "Listen" above, clickable for anyone, but expressly
forbidden for PTD]:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/audio/nwspeak/cm_creaky_apartment.mp3

My comment: This is a VERY CONVINCING example, it clearly shows the
phenomenon is all its ghastly HORROR.


http://www.talknowledgy.com/about_pub.html
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*5. HENTON, C.G. (1989) Sociophonetic aspects of creaky voice. Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America, 86, S25: J3.
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(Could anybody find out what language this is about? I can:)
http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JASMAN0000860000S1000S26000002&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes
LOL! It's about British English!!!!!!

http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~tsc3/04BAAPposter.pdf#search=%22creaky%20voice%20american%20english%22
(also British!!)

http://bridget8.myweb.uga.edu/research.html
Anderson, Bridget L., and Mark Arehart. (2001). Creaky voice and the
Detroit African American English vowel system. NWAV 30, North Carolina
State University.

(American again, not California, not North-West!)

http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~anth383/unit3.html
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To what extent are people?s individual dialect features conscious
and/or controllable? For example, professor Norma Mendoza-Denton
studies Latina gang girls in California. A dialect feature of these
gang girls is creaky voice. She knows that their use of creaky voice
is controlled by them in the sense that they consistently use creaky
voice in the context of their peer group only during specific kinds of
stories about specific topics, but never in front of their parents or
teachers. However, when asked about their use of creaky voice, the
girls are not conscious of their usage pattern or even that they use
creaky voice.
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