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Language variation and change in the American midland : a new look at "heartland" English

Author: Thomas E Murray; Beth Lee Simon
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2006.
Series: Varieties of English around the world., General series ;, 36.
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Language variation and change in the American midland.
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2006
(OCoLC)607685003
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas E Murray; Beth Lee Simon
ISBN: 9027248966 9789027248961
OCLC Number: 61461894
Description: xii, 319 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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 ... [et al.] --
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.
Series Title: Varieties of English around the world., General series ;, 36.
Responsibility: edited by Thomas E. Murray, Beth Lee Simon.
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