Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Problems in Midwest English : introduction and overview / Timothy C. Frazer
  • Two heartland perceptions of language variety / Dennis R. Preston
  • On inland northern and the factors for dialect spread and shift / Thomas S. Donahue
  • The language of Yankee cultural imperialism : pioneer ideology and "general American" / Timothy C. Frazer
  • Black English and Standard English in Chicago / Andrew Sledd
  • Linguistic controversies, VBE structures, and Midwest attitudes / Timothy J. Riney
  • Farmer City, Illinois : sound systems shifting south / Timothy Habick
  • The language of St. Louis, Missouri : dialect mixture in the urban Midwest / Thomas E. Murray
  • Sound change and gender in a working-class community / Robin Herndobler
  • Yankee words in Chicago Black speech / Michael I. Miller
  • Positive anymore in the Midwest / Thomas E. Murray
  • Some dialect features in the speech of Missouri Germans / Donald M. Lance
  • Regional speech variation in Wisconsin / Craig M. Carver
  • "Kentuck" English in Wisconsin's Cutover region / Donald Larmouth and Marjorie Remsing
  • Elements of Midwestern speech in Oklahoma / Bruce Southard
  • Regional variation in Missouri / Rachel B. Faries and Donald M. Lance
  • The use of all the + comparative structure / Erik R. Thomas.