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1 online resource (x, 616 pages) : illustrations |
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Dialect theory -- Linguistic geography : achievements, methods, and orientations / Gino Bottiglioni -- Is structural dialectology possible? / Urielo Weinreich -- Other recent approaches / K.M. Petyt -- Regional dialects -- The methods of American dialectology / E. Bagby Atwood -- The sociocultural background of dialect areas in American English / Hans Kurath -- Linguistic geography / Raven I. McDavid, Jr. -- General American : an ambiguity / William R. Van Riper -- The speech of rural New England / Audrey R. Duckert -- South Midland pronunciation in the North Central states / Timothy C. Frazer -- The primary dialect areas of the Upper Midwest / Harold B. Allen -- Grassroots grammar in the Gulf States / Lee Pederson -- The speech of the American heartland : Oklahoma / Bobbé Lou Van Riper -- Problems of English speech mixture in California and Nevada / Carroll E. Reed and David W. Reed -- Unstressed vowels in Appalachian English / Ronald R. Butters -- Language variation--some realities / Frederic G. Cassidy |
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The contemporary context of Canadian English / Walter S. Avis -- The concept of dialect and the study of Canadian English / Ian Pringle -- Social dialects and language variation -- The social distribution of selected verb forms in The Linguistic atlas of the North Central States / Virginia McDavid -- The Linguistic atlas of the Upper Midwest as a source of sociolinguistic information / Harold B. Allen -- Southern White in the English language community / Crawford Feagin -- Reflections on class and language / Richard Ohmann -- The social stratification of (r) in New York City department stores / William Labov -- The vocalization of intervocalic /l/ in Philadelphia / Sharon Ash -- Toward a theory of social dialect variation / Anthony S. Kroch -- Social network and linguistic focusing / Lesley Milroy -- Aspects of language variability and two areas of applications / Roger Shuy -- Social identity and linguistic sex differentiation / Peter Trudgill -- You say what you are : acceptability and gender-related language / Robin Lakoff -- Social dialectology : a plea for more data / Wolfgang Viereck |
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Ethnicity and dialects -- Ethnicity in phonological variation and change / Martha Laferriere -- The relation between black and white speech in the South / Ralph W. Fasold -- A reexamination of the Black English copula / John Baugh -- Mexican-American English : social correlates of regional pronunciation / Roger M. Thompson -- Historical development and language change -- American English at the time of the Revolution / Guy Jean Forgue -- The social origins of sound change / William Labov -- On the sociality of Creole languages / William Washabaugh -- Dialects and education -- Standard and disparate varieties of English in the United States : educational sociopolitical implications / Riley B. Smith and Donald M. Lance -- Black and white adolescent and preadolescent attitudes toward Black English / Michael D. Linn and Gene Piché -- American Indian English and its implications for bilingual education / William L. Leap |
| Summary |
This anthology emphasizes dialects of American English and language variation in America. The editors present original essays by today's leading investigators, including articles by some of Europe's best dialectologists, obtained expressly for this work |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Dialectology.
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Language and languages -- Variation.
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English language -- United States -- Dialectology
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English language -- United States.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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English language
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Dialectology
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English language -- Dialectology
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Language and languages -- Variation
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Sprachvariante
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Mundart
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Soziolinguistik
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Dialektologie
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Dialectologie.
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Dialecten.
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Taalvariatie.
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Amerikaans.
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United States
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Amerikanisches Englisch.
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Englisch.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Allen, Harold B. (Harold Byron), 1902-1988.
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Linn, Michael D
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| ISBN |
9781483294766 |
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1483294765 |
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