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The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool
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The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool

Author: William Labov; Sharon Ash; Charles Boberg
Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Computer File, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: William Labov; Sharon Ash; Charles Boberg
ISBN: 3110167468 9783110167467
OCLC Number: 61758568
Description: xiv, 318 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 30 x 40 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
Details: System requirements: Pentium 500 MHz or AMD K6-III+ 500 MHz; PowerPC G3; 64 MB RAM; 16-bit Soundcard; Windows 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP; Mac OS 9.x, X 10.x; Linux (any distribution with Kernel 2.0 or higher). Supported browsers: Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6 (Mac OS: Internet Explorer 5.2 and Safari 1.2.3 or higher); Netscape 7.x; Mozilla 1.0 or higher; Mozilla Firefox 0.8 or higher. Plugins: Macromedia Flash Player 6 or higher; Acrobat Reader (4 or higher).
Contents: Introduction -- The North American English vowel system -- Principles of chain shifting and mergers -- Sampling and field 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 findings of North American English : an overview.
Responsibility: by William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg.
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