Format:
1 Online Ressource (xvi, 318 Seiten).
ISBN:
3-11-016746-8
,
978-3-11-020683-8
,
3-11-020683-8
Note:
Title from PDF title page (viewed Jan. 13, 2006)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 the Atlas of North American English : an overview
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Introduction -- - The North American English vowel system -- - Principles of chain shifting and mergers -- - Sampling 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 atlas of North American English : an overview
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The Atlas of North American English provides an overall view of the pronounciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. It is based on a telephone survey of local speakers representing all of the urbanized areas of North America
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druchausgabe ISBN 978-3-11-016746-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Amerikanisches Englisch
;
Mundart
;
Phonetik
;
Phonologie
;
Sprachwandel
Author information:
Labov, William 1927-
