Title The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool / by William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg

Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2006] ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital, PDF file Contents Introduction -- The North American English vowel system -- Principles of chain shifting and mergers -- Sampling and field methods -- Methods of acoustic analysis -- The construction of isoglosses -- The restoration of post-vocalic /r/ -- Nearly completed mergers -- North American mergers in progress -- The vowels of North American English -- The dialects of North American English -- The fronting of back upgliding vowels -- The short-a and short-o configurations -- The North -- Canada -- New England -- New York City and the mid-Atlantic states -- The South -- The Midland -- The West -- Lexical and grammatical maps -- African-Americans -- The findings of the Atlas of North American English : an overview Introduction -- The North American English vowel system -- Principles of chain shifting and mergers -- Sampling methods -- Methods of acoustic analysis -- The construction of isoglosses -- The restoration of post-vocalic /r/ -- Nearly completed mergers -- North American mergers in progress -- The vowels of North American English -- The dialects of North American English -- The fronting of back upgliding vowels -- The short-a and short-o configurations -- The North -- Canada -- New England -- New York City and the mid-Atlantic states -- The South -- The Midland -- The West -- Lexical and grammatical maps -- African-Americans -- The atlas of North American English : an overview Summary The Atlas of North American English provides an overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. It is based on a telephone survey of local speakers representing all of the urbanized areas of North America Analysis Linguistics, Language and Literature Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed Jan. 13, 2006) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject English language -- North America English language -- Dialects -- North America Americanisms. Canadianisms. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General. Americanisms Canadianisms English language English language -- Dialects Amerikanisches Englisch Mundart Phonologie Phonetik Sprachwandel North America Form Electronic book Author Ash, Sharon, author. Boberg, Charles, author. ISBN 3110167468 9783110167467 9783110206838 3110206838

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