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Needed research in American dialects
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- Creator
- [edited by] Dennis R. Preston
- Included Title
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- American speech
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Durham, NC : Published by Duke University Press for the American Dialect Society, 2003
- Physical Details
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- xii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822365945, 0822365944
- OCLC
- ocm53223661
- "Annual supplement to American Speech."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction / Dennis R. Preston --1. The History of American English / Michael Montgomery -- 2. Linguistic Atlases of the United States and Canada / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. -- 3. Regional lexicon: DARE and beyond / Joan Houston Hall -- 4. A national survey of North American dialects / Sharon Ash --5. Conversation, text, and discourse / Barbara Johnstone -- 6. Social variation in America / Penelope Eckert -- 7. Ideologies, attitudes, and perceptions / Richard W. Bailey -- 8. Slang, metaphor, and folk speech / Connie C. Eble -- 9. Languages other than English in Canada and the United States / Robert Bayley and Ruth King -- 10. Language change in variation and formal syntax / Ralph W. Fasold