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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sound Change in Farmer City: A Sociolinguistic Study Based on Acoustic Data

Abstract

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This dissertation reports the findings of a survey of the dialect of Farmer City, Illinois, involving spectrographic analysis of the recorded speech of a sample of 40 individuals from two opposing teenage peer groups and two older generations. A group of 7 speakers from three generations of a

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Linguistics
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2014

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Habick, Timothy

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(UMI)AAI8017946
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66711

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2026-07-22
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citation

Habick, Timothy. Sound Change in Farmer City: A Sociolinguistic Study Based on Acoustic Data. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/66711