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

The Atlas of North American English provides an overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. It is based on a telephone survey of local speakers representing all of the urbanized areas of North America.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Labov, William (Author), Ash, Sharon (Author), Boberg, Charles (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2006]
Subjects:
English language > North America.
English language > Dialects > North America.
Americanisms.
Canadianisms.
Anglais (Langue) > Amérique du Nord.
Anglais (Langue) > Dialectes > Amérique du Nord.
Anglais (Langue) > États-Unis > Idiotismes.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General.
Americanisms
Canadianisms
English language
English language > Dialects
Amerikanisches Englisch
Mundart
Phonologie
Phonetik
Sprachwandel
North America
Linguistics, Language and Literature
Electronic reference sources.
Online Access:Texto completo
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 the Atlas of North American English : an overview.
  • Introduction
  • The North American English vowel system
  • Principles of chain shifting and mergers
  • Sampling 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 atlas of North American English : an overview.

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