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 |
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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
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English language -- Dialects -- North America
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Americanisms.
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Canadianisms.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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Americanisms
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Canadianisms
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English language
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English language -- Dialects
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Amerikanisches Englisch
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Mundart
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Phonologie
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Phonetik
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Sprachwandel
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North America
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Ash, Sharon, author.
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Boberg, Charles, author.
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ISBN |
3110167468 |
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9783110167467 |
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9783110206838 |
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3110206838 |
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