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The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Labov, William
Other Authors: Ash, Sharon, Boberg, Charles
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2006]
Subjects:
English language > North America.
English language > Dialects > North America.
English language > Variations > North America.
Americanisms.
Canadianisms.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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 North American English : an overview.