"Heartland" English: Variation and Transition in the American MidwestTimothy C. Frazer University of Alabama Press, 1993 - 310 sider A scholarly treatment of English spoken in the Midwest, or the northern interior of the continental United States. Frazer and his contributors show that this is a complex region in which forces - old and new - have led to variety in the spoken language. |
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Power and Perception | 23 |
On Inland Northern and the Factors for Dialect | 49 |
Black English and Standard English in Chicago | 67 |
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American Dialect American Dialect Society American English American Speech atlas records Black English black speech boundary burnouts Chicago counties of origin culture cutover region dialect area dialectology East Side eastern Kentucky factor group Farmer City female forms Frazer frequency fronted geographical guise Illinois immigrants Indiana Indiana respondents informants interviews Iowa isoglosses Kurath Labov LANCS records Langlade County language layer lexical Linguistic Atlas Louis Louisans male McDavid Michigan respondents middle-class Midland dialect Midwest Midwestern Missouri monophthong nonstandard Northern and North occur Ohio Oklahoma Territory patterns Pederson phonemic phonological positive anymore pronunciation ratings redneck sample schwa sentences settlement history settlers shows Sledd social sociolinguistic sound change South Midland Southern and South standard English structure survey Table tion usage variation varieties vocabulary vocalic system vowel West western white speech Wisconsin women words Yankee York