New York-New Jersey English

The variety of the English language spoken in the New York City and North Jersey region is often considered to be one of the most recognizable accents within American English.

Related topics

• Regional Vocabularies of American English

External links

• Varieties of English: New York City phonology from the University of Arizona's Language Samples Project
• William Labov's webpage There are links to many sites related to dialects, including references to his early work on New York dialect and the Atlas of North American English.
• http://www.ling.upenn.edu.phono-atlas/Icslp4.html A paper by Labov on dialect diversity, including information on NY dialect phonology.
• The New York Latino English Project The site of the New York Latino English project, which studies the native English spoken by New York Latinos.
• http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml A site with samples of speech in various dialects, including New York.

References

• Labov, William (1982) The social stratification of English in New York City Center for Applied Linguistics isbn: 0872811492
• Labov, William (1973) Sociolinguistic Patterns U. of Pennsylvania Press isbn: 0812210522*
• Labov, William (1994) Principles of Linguistic Change: Volume 1: Internal Factors Blackwell isbn: 0631179143
• Labov, William (2001) Atlas of North American English DeGruyter isbn: 3110167468
• Labov, William (2001) Principles of Linguistic Change: Volume 2: Social Factors Blackwell isbn: 063117916X
• Slomanson, Peter & Michael Newman (2004) ?Peer Group Identification and Variation in New York Latino English Laterals? English Worldwide, 25 (2) pp. 199-216 (http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=EWW)
• Wolfram, Walt & Nancy Schilling Estes (2005) American English 2nd edition Blackwell isbn: 1405112654
• Wolfram, Walt & Ward, Ben (2005) American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast Blackwell isbn: 1405121092