Focus on the USA

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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Research Trends in the Study of American English
References
Chapter 2: Piney Woods Southern
References
Chapter 3: Foundations of American English
1. Introduction
2. Probability mapping
3. Lexical variation in colonial cities
4. Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: The Comparability of Linguistic Atlas Records the Case of LANCS and LAGS
1. Introduction
2. Method
3. Lexical results
4. Phonological results
5. Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Terms Used For Childern's Games: Comparing Dare's Findings with Usage of Today's Youth
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Findings
4. Summary and reasons for change
Chapter 6: The Dialects of the Middle West
1. Introduction
2. Northern, Midland, North Midland, South Midland
3. Pronunciation: Sociolinguistic methods in a geographical context
4. Foreign language influences
References
Chapter 7: Dialect Change and Maintenance in a Post-Insular Island Community
1. Introduction
2. An ethnographic perspective on dialect study
3. The Ocracoke "Brogue" and other American English dialects
4. The case of Ocracoke /ay/: Phonetic and phonological issues
5. Phonetic implausibility vs. social significance
6. Weren't regularization
7. Applying the principle of linguistic gratuity in Ocracoke
References
Chapter 8: A Comparison of Variation Patterns of Variables Among Sixth-Graders in an Ohio Community
1. Influences on dialectal change
1.1. The survey
1.2. The community
2. Methods
2.1. Interviewing
2.2. Measurement of linguistic variables
2.3. Independent variables
2.4. Measurement of correlation
3. Analyses of the linguistic variables
3.1. /o/
3.2. /æ/
3.3. /ai/
3.4. Upgliding in dog and similar words
3.5. The merger of pre-nasal /I/ and /ε/
3.6. Mergers involving /ol/, /℧l/, and /ul/
3.7. Don't and home
3.8. Roof
3.9. Hostile
3.10. Lightning bug
3.11. Teeter-totter
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Appendix
References
Chapter 9: Perceptions Within a Variable Paradigm: Black and White Racial Detection and Identification Based on Speech
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical foundations
3. Procedures
3.1. Speech selection
3.2. The Linguistic Sensitivity Test
3.3. Data specification
4. Results
4.1. Possible interpretations
4.2. Native evaluations and second language evaluations
4.3 Native judges ' evaluations based on social background
5. Implications for research on housing discrimination
6. Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Sex-Based Differences in Language Choice in an African-American Neighborhood in Detroit
1. Introduction
2. The inner city area study
3. Theoretical considerations
4. The Vernacular Language Project (VLP)
5. Language and gender
6. Language and gender in the 60+ age group
References
Chapter 11: The English Competence of Cuban Exiles: The Case of Noun Pluralization
1. Introduction
2. Informant selection and data gathering
3. Data analysis
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions
References
Chapter 12: What Was Verbal -S in 19th-Century African American English?
1. Introduction
2. Evidence for language contact from written documents
3. Verbal -s marking
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
References
Chapter 13: The Development of American Englishes: Some Questions From a Creole Genesis Perspective
1. Introduction
2. Why are WAVEs not creoles?
3. The genesis of AAE
3.1. A critique of the literature
3.1.1.
3.1.2.
3.1.3.
3.1.4.
3.2. What history suggests: A competition-of-feature hypothesis
4. The development of WAVEs: A creole perspective
5. Conclusions
References
Chapter 14: Historical and Contemporary Distribution of Double Modals in English
1. Introduction
2. The distribution of double modals in contemporary American English
3. Atlantic Creole sources
4. British English sources
5. U.S. settlement history
6. Spontaneous generation in the south
7. Historical grammatical sources
8. Summary
References
Chapter 15: American College Slang
References
Chapter 16: Where the Worst English is Spoken
1. Quantitative studies
1.1. Hand-drawn maps
1.2. Correct and pleasant
1.3. Degree of difference
1.4. Placement of regional voices
1.5. Summary of quantitative research
2. Conversational evidence
References
Addresses of authors
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