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The atlas of North American English phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool
- Author
- Labov, William.
- Title
- The atlas of North American English [electronic resource] : phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool / by William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg.
- Format
- E-Book
- Published
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006.
- Description
- 318 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 31 X 41 cm. + 1 CD-ROM ( 4 3/4 in.)
- [Description]
- System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Windows 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP or Mac OS 9x, X, 10.x/Linux (any distribution with Kernel 2.0 or higher); Supported browsers: IE 5.5, Safari 1.2.3. or higher / Mozilla 1.0 or higher / Netscape 7.x / Mozilla Firefox0.8 or higher; Plugins: Macromedia Flash Player 6 or higher / Acrobat Reader (4 or higher) Minimum requirements: Pentium 500 MHz or AMD K6-III+ 500 MHz, PowerPC G3, 64 MB RAM, 16bit Soundcard.
- URL
- Access for [SOUTHEAST] Access for [BLOOMINGTON] Access for [EAST] Access for [NORTHWEST] Access for [IUPUI] Access for [KOKOMO] Access for [SOUTH BEND] Access for [COLUMBUS]
- Other contributors
- Ash, Sharon. Boberg, Charles.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index. Available on campus and off campus with authorized login.
- Contents
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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.
- Subject headings
- English language--North America. English language--Dialects--North America. English language--Variation--North America. Americanisms. Canadianisms.
- Genre heading
- Electronic books.
- ISBN
- 9783110167467 (bk. with CD-ROM : acid-free paper) 3110167468 (bk. with CD-ROM : acid-free paper)