Dialect change and maintenance on the Outer Banks
By: Walt Wolfram, Kirk Hazen, Natalie Schilling-Estes.
Contributors: Hazen, Kirk.; Schilling-Estes, Natalie.
Series: Publication of the American Dialect Society ;; no. 81
Publisher: Published for The Society by the University of Alabama Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks.; Americanisms -- North Carolina -- Outer Banks.; Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Social conditions.; Outer Banks (N.C.) -- Languages.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: List of tables; title: Preface; title: A sociolinguistic study of the Outer Banks; title: The sociohistorical context of the Outer Banks; title: A profile of Outer Banks English; title: Subject-verb concord in Outer Banks English; title: Weren't regularization: an alternative concord pattern; title: The shifting status of Outer Banks /aj/; title: Mixing Outer Banks and Southern /o/; title: Isolation within isolation: an ethnolinguistic boundary the Outer Banks; title: Dialect awareness and the community: a proactive program; title: Appendix: Ocracoke interview questionnaire