CALIFORNIA AND UTAH ENGLISH

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1 The English Language in the USA Prof. R. Hickey SS 2015 CALIFORNIA AND UTAH ENGLISH Ekaterina Kleinbreuer and Mohamed Yusef (LN, Seminar) Modul IV, VI or VIII

2 Ekaterina Kleinbreuer, LN, Seminar

3 Outline 1. California English 1.1. General and historical information 1.2 Stereotype of Valley Girl and Surfer Dude 1.3 California English Phonetic features Lexical features 1.4. Conclusion 2. Utah English 2.1. History and Demograpic Change in Utah 2.2.Religious Affiliation 2.3. Linguistic Behavior

4 California today

5 General and Historical Information First Settlement: early 1700 s Spanish missionaries Date of Statehood: September 9, st state of the USA Capital: Sacramento Nicknames: The Golden State; The Land of Milk and Honey; The El Dorado State; The Grape State Land area: 155, Population: 38,802, "United States Census Bureau." California QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau.

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8 Interesting facts California has the largest economy in the United States In 2012, it was ranked the 9 th largest economy in the world Considered to be the hottest, driest place in the United States, Death Valley often reaches temperatures greater than 120 F Southern California has about 10,000 earthquakes each year, although only 15 to 20 of them have a magnitude greater than 4.0 Despite its urbanization and the loss of land to industry, California still leads the country in agricultural production

9 California s Population United States Census Bureau." California QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau.

10 Stereotypes of California Stereotype of Valley Girl originated in the 1970 s In 1982 Frank Zappa realized the song Valley Girl, which contains a monologue of Valleyspeak. It made popular the phrases like like totally gag me with a spoon and grody to the max Valley Girl and Surfer Dude speech is usually associated with speech which contains words such as awesome, totally, fer sure, harsh, gnarly, dude moon-unit-zappa-valley-girl_music

11 Leanne Hinton University of California Penny Eckert Stanford University

12 California Phonetic Features California Vowel Shift 2 2 "Penny Eckert's Web Page." Penny Eckert's Web Page. 3 Gordon, Matthew. "Vowel Shifting. PBS. PBS

13 The vowel /ɪ/ in him, sit, and bid is moving in two directions. Before /ŋ/, it raises to the vowel [i] as in beam, bean e.g.: think sounds more like theenk Before other consonants, it shifts towards the vowel in hem, set, and bed. e.g.: did sounds more like dead The vowel /ɛ/ in bed, set, send is shifting towards the vowel/æ/ in bad, sat, sand. e.g.: friend sounds more like frand The vowel /ʌ/ in but, rust, bun is shifting towards the vowel [ɛ] in bet, rest, Ben. e.g.: fun sounds more like fen

14 The vowel /æ/ in hat, hand, pass is splitting into two variants. Before nasal consonants it becomes a diphthong, and the first part of the diphthong is shifting towards /iy/ e.g.: stand sounds more like steeand Before other consonants, as in hat, rack, cast, it shifts in the other direction, towards the vowel in hot, rock, cost e.g.: that sounds more like thot The distinction between the vowels in cot and caught, Don and Dawn has been lost. The merged vowel is pronounced between the two. e.g. mom sounds like mawm The vowel /u/ in boot, soon, dude is shifting towards the vowel in bit, sin, did. e.g.: move sounds like miiuw The back vowels in boa move forward, so it sounds more like bewt

15 California lexical features discourse marker or quotative like e.g.: I m like, where have you been? like as a filler e.g. in place of thinking sounds "uh" and "um quotative be all e.g.: And she was all "Were you in the church?" and I was all "yeah Northern Californian colloquialism hella meaning "many", "much", "so" or "very. e.g.: "I haven't seen you in hella long"; "There were hella people there Eckert, Penny, and Norma Mendoza-Denton. "California English." "Stanford Linguists Seek to Identify the Elusive California Accent." Stanford University.

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17 Conclusion California is relatively young state of the USA and the recent studies are showing that California English differs from the other varieties of English and it continues its developing being influenced by high ethnic diversity Stereotypical California English constitutes features of Valleyspeak and Surfer Dude California Shift combines both Southern Shift and Northern cities Shift

18 References "California." IDEA International Dialects of English Archive. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June "California." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 12 June < Gordon, Matthew. "Vowel Shifting." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 14 June "Penny Eckert's Web Page." Penny Eckert's Web Page. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Researchers Say Californians Really Do Have an Accent. KCRA News, 8 Sept Web. 12 June < "Stanford Linguists Seek to Identify the Elusive California Accent." Stanford University. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 June "United States Census Bureau." California QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 June Wolfram, Walt, and Ben Ward. American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., Print.

19 ENGLISH IN AMERICA PROF. R. HICKEY SS 2015 AMERICAN ENGLISH IN UTAH Yusef Mohamed 2 Fach BA Modul VI

20 The Schedule The City of Utah The Author David Bowie His Research Vowel Changes Sound Files Historical Part Conclusion

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23 Utah Metropolis: Salt Lake City 3 Million people; NRW 18 Million 62% Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint. Short LDS or (Mormoms)

24 David Bowie Associate Professor: The University of Alaska Anachorage Sociolinguist and Dialectologist Desert Dialect

25 the vowel change before l 1. short i short e milk melk pillow pellow 2. long e short i steel mill still mill long a short e sell house for sale house for The people in Utah think this as a stereotypical for Utahn English

26 A Stigma of Utahn English Long u pool, fool pull, full Card/cord merger or ar Example: Spanish Fork Spanish Fark Strongly present in the Salt Lake City metropolitan areas. Therefore the following examples are nearly ordinary: born barn corn carn

27 Southern features Long i ah time, bye or guide tahm, bah, gahd The reason for these changes will be explained by the history of the first English-speaking settlement in Utah

28 Utah's link to the Northen United States In 1930 the dramatist and historian T. Earle Pardoe drew words connection between Utah and the Northen United States It appears that Utah was linguistically influenced by the Northen Cities, when it comes to the lexical choice of words Using husk instead of shuck or moo instead of low

29 Sound Samples Sound Sample 1 A 19 Years Old Female From Salt Lake City Sound Sample 2 B 31 Years Old Male From Salt Lake City

30 The History of Utah The first English-speaking settlers were from the LDS church They were forced out from Nauvoo, Illinios Previously, they were in Missouri and Kirtland, Ohio (near Cleveland) However, the LDS church was founded in Fayette, New York Most member lived in New York and Pennsylvania

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32 Possible Reason for this Mixture On the one hand you have these Northen varities of English; in New York, northen Pennsylania and northen Ohio On the other hand you have also these Southern varities of English; in western Missouri and southern/ eatern Illinios The Adults: lexical choice of words from the North The Children: the sound of words from the South

33 Conclusion As California, Utah also very late(1850) become a state of the United State. Consequently, Utah English is, at core, both Southern and Northen American English. Yet the reason for this differs from California: Already the first English-speaking settler of Utah adopted both features of the American English

34 References Wolfram, Walt, and Ben Ward. American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., Print. Utah." IDEA International Dialects of English Archive. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 June Bowie, David and Morkel Wendy. Desert Dialect (Utah) in: Wolfram, Walt, and Ben Ward. American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., Print.