8. When Missoura Got Warshed Out: The Rise of Prescriptivist Influence as a Factor Reshaping Pronunciation
matthew j. gordon represents the early years of Gen X. He serves as director of the Program in Linguistics and professor of English at the University of Missouri–Columbia. His research explores sociolinguistic variation in American English. He is the author of Labov: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2013) and collaborated with Christopher Strelluf on The Origins of Missouri English: A Historical Sociophonetic Analysis (Lexington, 2024). Email: [email protected].
christopher strelluf is Gen X by a couple of years. He is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Warwick in Coventry, United Kingdom, and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Applied Linguistics. He is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics (Routledge, 2024) and author of Speaking from the Heartland: The Midland Vowel System of Kansas City (Duke Univ. Press, 2018) and (with Matthew J. Gordon) The Origins of Missouri English: A Historical Sociophonetic Analysis (Lexington, 2024). Email: [email protected].
Matthew J. Gordon, Christopher Strelluf; 8. When Missoura Got Warshed Out: The Rise of Prescriptivist Influence as a Factor Reshaping Pronunciation. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 December 2024; 109 (1): 194–220. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-11587991
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