Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing the Midland: what is it, where is it, how do we know? / Beth Simon
  • What is dialect? Revisiting the Midland / Thomas E. Murray, Beth Lee Simon
  • North American Midland as a dialect area / Sharon Ash
  • Tracking the low back merger in Missouri / Matthew J. Gordon
  • Evidence from Ohio on the evolution of /æ/ Erik R. Thomas
  • On the use of geographic names to inform regional language studies / Edward Callary
  • On the eastern edge of the Heartland: two industrial city dialects / Thomas S. Donahue
  • Final days of Appalachian Heritage Language / Kirk Hazen
  • It'll kill ye or cure ye, one: the history and function of alternative one / Michael Montgomery
  • Standardizing the Heartland / Richard W. Bailey
  • How to get to be one kind of Midwesterner: accommodation to the Northern Cities Chain Shift / Betsy E. Evans [and others]
  • Midland(s) dialect geography: social and demographic variables / Timothy Frazer
  • Drawing out the /ai/: dialect boundaries and /ai/ variation / Cynthia Bernstein
  • Learning Spanish in the north Georgia mountains / Ellen Johnson, David Boyle
  • Midland above the Midland: dialect variation by region, sex, and social group in the linguistic atlas of the Upper Midwest / Michael D. Linn, ronald Regal
  • Portable community: the linguistic and psychological reality of Midwestern Pennsylvania German / Steven Hartman Keiser
  • English of the Swiss Amish of northeastern Indiana / Chad Thompson.