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"Ý... William Labov is to American dialect what Lewis and Clark are to American geography. He's the pathfinder. Labov's new work Ý... constitutes the first coast-to-coast charting of all the major dialects spoken in the continental United States and Canada." -- John Seabrook
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"Ý... William Labov is to American dialect what Lewis and Clark are to American geography. He's the pathfinder. Labov's new work Ý... constitutes the first coast-to-coast charting of all the major dialects spoken in the continental United States and Canada." -- John Seabrook
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Recently hailed as a 2006 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title!
Print Volume + CD-ROM
The Atlas of North American English provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. The Atlas re-defines the regional dialects of American English on the basis of sound changes active in the 1990s and draws new boundaries reflecting those changes. It is based on a telephone survey of 762 local speakers, representing all the urbanized areas of North America. It has been developed by Bill Labov, one of the leading sociolinguists of the world, together with his colleagues Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg.
The book contains:
- 23 chapters that re-define the geographic boundaries of North American dialects and trace the influence of gender, age, education, and city size on the progress of sound change;
- findings that show a dramatic and increasing divergence of English in North America;
- 139 four color maps that illustrate the regional distribution of phonological and phonetic variables across the North American continent;
- 120 four color vowel charts of individual speakers.
The multimedia CD-ROM supplements the articles and maps by providing:
-a data base with measurements of more than 100,000 vowels and mean values for 439 speakers;
-the Plotnik program for mapping each of the individual vowel systems;
-extended sound samples of all North American dialects;
-multimedia applications to enhance classroom presentations.
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low back merger, upgliding vowels, glide deletion, ingliding vowels, isogloss shows, lower mid position, front upglide, dark red symbols, light green symbols, nonperipheral position, coronal onset, low front position, mid back position, relative frontness, magenta symbols, low central position, peripheral track, dark blue symbols, mid front position, low short vowels, high front position, vowel subsystem, nasal system, high back position, low back position Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Inland North, North America, Northern Cities Shift, United States, New Orleans, North Carolina, Canadian English, Texas South, Kansas City, Atlantic Provinces, Great Lakes, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Central Cities, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pacific Northwest, Salt Lake City, South Dakota, South Midland, Thunder Bay, Hudson Valley, Los Angeles, Corpus Christi, Nova Scotia New!
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low back merger, upgliding vowels, glide deletion, ingliding vowels, isogloss shows, lower mid position, front upglide, dark red symbols, light green symbols, nonperipheral position, coronal onset, low front position, mid back position, relative frontness, magenta symbols, low central position, peripheral track, dark blue symbols, mid front position, low short vowels, high front position, vowel subsystem, nasal system, high back position, low back position Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Inland North, North America, Northern Cities Shift, United States, New Orleans, North Carolina, Canadian English, Texas South, Kansas City, Atlantic Provinces, Great Lakes, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Central Cities, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pacific Northwest, Salt Lake City, South Dakota, South Midland, Thunder Bay, Hudson Valley, Los Angeles, Corpus Christi, Nova Scotia New!
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- Linguistic Atlas of New England (Linguistic atlas of the United States and Canada) by Hans Jurath on 4 pages
- The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States by Hans Kurath on 4 pages
- Focus on Canada (Varieties of English Around the World General Series) by Sandra Clarke in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- American Regional Dialects: A Word Geography by Craig M. Carver on page 3, and Back Matter
- A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English by John Samuel Kenyon on page 190, and Back Matter
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- Principles of Linguistic Change, Social Factors (Language in Society) (Volume 2) by William Labov on page 432, Back Matter, and Back Cover
- The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics) by J. K. Chambers on page 38, and page 196
- The Development of African American English (Language in Society) by Walt Wolfram in Back Matter
- Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation (Language in Society) by Lesley Milroy on page 21
- English in the Southern United States (Studies in English Language) by Stephen J. Nagle on page 122
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