Lexical Change and Variation in the Southeastern United States, 1930-1990.
This book discusses words used in the Southeast and how they have changed during the 20th century. It also describes how the lexicon varies according to the speaker's age, race, education, sex, and place of residence (urban versus rural; coastal versus piedmont versus mountain). Data collected...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Alabama :
University of Alabama Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book discusses words used in the Southeast and how they have changed during the 20th century. It also describes how the lexicon varies according to the speaker's age, race, education, sex, and place of residence (urban versus rural; coastal versus piedmont versus mountain). Data collected in the 1930s as part of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States project were compared with data collected in 1990 from similar speakers in the same communities. The results show that region was the most important factor in differentiating dialects in the 1930s but that it is the lea. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780817384500 0817384502 |