The atlas of North American English
Subtitle: phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool
By: by William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg.
Contributors: Ash, Sharon.; Boberg, Charles.
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9783110167467
Subjects: English language -- North America; English language -- Dialects -- North America; English language -- Variations -- North America; Americanisms; Canadianisms
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The North American English vowel system; title: Principles of chain shifting and mergers; title: Sampling methods; title: Methods of acoustic analysis; title: The construction of isoglosses; title: The restoration of post-vocalic /r/; title: Nearly completed mergers; title: North American mergers in progress; title: The vowels of North American English; title: The dialects of North American English; title: The fronting of back upgliding vowels; title: The short-a and short-o configurations; title: The North; title: Canada; title: New England; title: New york City and the mid-Atlantic states; title: The South; title: The Midland; title: The West; title: Lexical and grammatical maps; title: African-Americans; title: The atlas of North American English : an overview.