A report on my sociolinguistic dissertation work-in-progress examining San Francisco English pronunciation among Asian Americans and European Americans in the residential neighborhood known as the Sunset District.

1. Lauren Hall-Lew Stanford University LSA 2009

6. the neighborhood (1900)

7. the neighborhood (1936)

8. the neighborhood (2008)

16. L-vocalization method

18. L-vocalization results

19. L-vocalization summary

21. back vowel fronting *Same calculation for post-apical, or ‘TOO’, vowels

22. fronting results: BOAT Age % front Monica   Jane (BEET) (BOWL) Age is a significant correlate at p < 0.05

23. fronting results: TOO Age % front  Jane Age is NOT a significant correlate, nor is ethnicity; there is a slight trend for Females > Males at p < 0.09

24. fronting results: BOOT Age % front  Jane Age is NOT a significant correlate, nor is sex or ethnicity

28. results

30. thanks Penny Eckert, John Rickford, Meghan Sumner, Miyako Inoue, Rebecca Starr, Rebecca Greene, Laura Staum Casasanto, Stacy Lewis, Katie Drager, Douglas Kenter, Rachel Cristy, Tyler Kendall, Robin Dodsworth, Sonya Fix, Bartek Plichta, Liz Coppock, Mary Rose, Rob Podesva, Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Carmen Fought, Malcah Yaeger-Dror, & the gracious residents past and present of San Francisco’s Sunset District

33. neighborhood & speakers