An edition of The atlas of North American English (2005)

The atlas of North American English

phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool

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An edition of The atlas of North American English (2005)

The atlas of North American English

phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool

by , , and

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Accompanying CD-ROM and website contain ... "a data base with measurements of more than 100,000 vowels and mean values for 439 speakers; extended sound samples of all North American dialects; multimedia material for further study; multimedia applications to enhance classroom presentations"--P. [4] of cover.

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Mouton de Gruyter
Language
English
Pages
318

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Subjects

Americanisms, Canadianisms, Dialects, English language, Variations, Variation, Grammar & vocabulary, Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech), Language Arts & Disciplines, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, American English, Language, Phonetics & Phonics, General, North America

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North America

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Berlin, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
427/.97
Library of Congress
PE2808 .L26 2006, PE2808 .L26 2006b

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
318

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OL3411898M
ISBN 10
3110167468
ISBN 13
9783110167467
LCCN
2005027981
OCLC/WorldCat
62886690, 61758568
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143564
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904512

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OL4342725W

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