While sociolinguists defined the regional sound changes around the linguistic behavior of White speakers, recent work has shown that racialized speakers employ local sound changes in socially meaningful ways. Advocating for an approach which places race and races place, this work views racialized speakers as authentic locals, situating their linguistic behavior in the context of their communities. Using the theoretic model of the persona, I examine how race and place are co‐constituted in Rochester, NY. Specifically, this paper examines how BAT lowering and retraction among younger speakers is led by the Mobile Black Professional, an emergent persona defined by their desire to relocate for work in a post‐industrial economy. This investigation prompts the field to reconsider the a priori exclusion of ‘ethnic’ speakers from studies of local sound change advancement and reversal.

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重新思考种族和地方：角色扮演在声音变化逆转中的作用

尽管社会语言学家围绕白人说话者的语言行为定义了区域性声音变化，但最近的研究表明，种族化的说话者以对社会有意义的方式利用了本地声音变化。提倡一种将种族和种族置于地方的方法，这项工作将种族化的讲者视为真实的当地人，将其语言行为置于其社区范围内。利用角色的理论模型，我研究了种族和地点在纽约州罗切斯特的共同构成。具体来说，本文研究了Mobile Black Professional如何引导年轻扬声器中的BAT降低和回缩，一种新兴人物，他们渴望在后工业经济中重新定位工作。这项调查促使该领域重新考虑从本地声音变化的推进和逆转研究中优先排除“民族”说话者。