Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) is a site of linguistic diversity where speakers of three major dialects of American English--Northern, Midland, and Southern--are brought into contact with one another. The speech of undergraduates at SIUC is subject to the processes of dialect contact and accommodation; as a result, regional speech features are lost in favor of an overarching SIUC dialect norm or koiné. The linguistic contact that takes place at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale is unique. Previous studies of dialect contact involve situations created by migrations of large populations of settlers moving to a new area. These --migrants‖ settle permanently in the new area and become isolated from their original anchor dialects. The dialect mixture that arises from countless single instances of interpersonal accommodation will, under many circumstances, lead to koinéization or new dialect formation. However, the dialect contact situation at SIUC is different from these previous studies. First, the contact situation at SIUC is made up of fluid populations of highly mobile individuals--undergraduates. While the groups in contact remain consistent, individual students comprising the populations of these groups come and go every year. Additionally, rather than permanently relocating, the contact between the different groups at SIUC is interrupted by students leaving for three months of summer break and one month of winter break every year, thereby preventing speakers of the displaced dialects from becoming isolated from their original anchor dialects. The presence of these factors at SIUC provides a way to test and expand our existing models of language use and language attitudes in regards to dialect contact, accommodation, self- and group- categorization, and individual- and community-level notions of linguistic variation and language change. / text

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-06-29Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:55:17Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 hannuch_sm_me_ia.pdf: 476337 bytes, checksum: cee87222ea505982ea8ce1eadac54475 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho investiga algumas características referentes à nasalidade no canto em português brasileiro, através de um estudo sobre a articulação e representação fonética das vogais nasais neste idioma. O estudo busca auxiliar o intérprete e o professor de canto no reconhecimento e administração destas características de forma a contribuir para uma maior liberdade vocálica e definição do gesto articulatório da nasalidade no canto em português brasileiro. O trabalho consiste na organização de informações coletadas através de referências da área da voz cantada e da linguística, que evidenciam ferramentas para a reflexão sobre uma nova possibilidade de transcrição fonética das vogais nasais para o canto em português brasileiro / This research aims to investigate the nasality in brazilian portuguese as sung, through a study about the articulation and phonetic representations of nasal vowels in this language. The study aims to assist the performer and singing teacher in the recognition and management of these features in order to contribute to greater freedom and definition of the nasality articulatory gesture in Brazilian Portuguese. This work organize information collected through referrals from the area of singing voice and linguistic, showing tools for thinking about a new possibility of phonetic transcription of nasal vowels for singing in Brazilian Portuguese