Sociophonetics | Language Change Research Seminar (NCSU English 528)

Erik R. Thomas

The materials here are from the sociophonetics course run by Erik R. Thomas at North Carolina State University in Fall 2011. All users are free to download and copy these files, in part or in whole, for educational purposes.

Textbook: Sociophonetics: An Introduction | supporting website

Course Syllabus: PDF | Word Doc

Lecture Powerpoint Slides (available in PPTX format, for download):

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Production
• Chapter 3: Perception
• Chapter 4 part A: Consonants
• Chapter 4 part B: Articles relating to Consonantal Analysis
• Chapter 5 part A: Vowels
• Chapter 5 part B: Vowels (cont.), Lindblom 1963, Undershoot
• Chapter 6 part A: Prosody
• Chapter 6 part B: Prosody (cont.)
• Chapter 7: Voice Quality
• Chapter 8: Combinations of Variables
• Chapter 9: Variation and Cognitive Processing
• Chapter 10: Sound Change
• Chapter 11: Social Factors and Phonetics
• Chapter 12: Lateral Transfer

Answers to Vowel Plots (Word Doc)