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The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool
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- Creator
- by William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 318 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 30 x 40 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 3110167468, 1282196693, 9786612196690, 9783110206838, 9783110167467, 3110206838
- OCLC
- ocn979759175, ocn935268846, ocm62886690, ocn435912024, ocm61758568
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-313) and index.
- Also available on the Internet.
- System requirements: Pentium 500 MHz or AMD K6-III+ 500 MHz; PowerPC G3; 64 MB RAM; 16-bit Soundcard; Windows 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP; Mac OS 9.x, X 10.x; Linux (any distribution with Kernel 2.0 or higher). Supported browsers: Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6 (Mac OS: Internet Explorer 5.2 and Safari 1.2.3 or higher); Netscape 7.x; Mozilla 1.0 or higher; Mozilla Firefox 0.8 or higher. Plugins: Macromedia Flash Player 6 or higher; Acrobat Reader (4 or higher).
- 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 North American English : an overview