Southern Georgia Sociophonetics. Movement into middle GA as a catalyst for language change
9/19/25: First Recordings
This week I visted, recruited, and recorded my first interviews in Cordele!
Summer 2025: Project Ideation
A big source of inspiration for this project was from reading Demographic change, migration, and the African American Vowel System in Georgia (Forrest, Jon & Renwick, Margaret & Stanley, Joseph & Glass, Lelia 2024). I wanted to take a granular look at AAE language chnage in Georgia by looking recent movement from rural to urban Black communites.