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| Genre/Form: | Languages |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: 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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- English language -- Variation -- Middle West.
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