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Language variation and change in the American midland : a new look at "heartland" English / edited by Thomas E. Murray, Beth Lee Simon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Varieties of English around the world. General series ; ; v. 36.Publication details: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789027293541
  • 9027293546
  • 9789027248961
  • 9027248966
  • 1282155849
  • 9781282155848
  • 9786612155840
  • 6612155841
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Language variation and change in the American midland.DDC classification:
  • 427/.977 22
LOC classification:
  • PE2932 .L36 2006eb
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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