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"Heartland" English : variation and transition in the American Midwest / edited by Timothy C. Frazer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Centennial series of the American Dialect SocietyPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, �1993.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 310 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585176795
  • 9780585176796
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: "Heartland" English.DDC classification:
  • 427/.977 20
LOC classification:
  • PE2932 .H43 1993eb
Other classification:
  • 18.04
  • H31
Online resources:
Contents:
Problems in Midwest English : introduction and overview / Timothy C. Frazer -- Two heartland perceptions of language variety / Dennis R. Preston -- On inland northern and the factors for dialect spread and shift / Thomas S. Donahue -- The language of Yankee cultural imperialism : pioneer ideology and "general American" / Timothy C. Frazer -- Black English and Standard English in Chicago / Andrew Sledd -- Linguistic controversies, VBE structures, and Midwest attitudes / Timothy J. Riney -- Farmer City, Illinois : sound systems shifting south / Timothy Habick -- The language of St. Louis, Missouri : dialect mixture in the urban Midwest / Thomas E. Murray -- Sound change and gender in a working-class community / Robin Herndobler -- Yankee words in Chicago Black speech / Michael I. Miller -- Positive anymore in the Midwest / Thomas E. Murray -- Some dialect features in the speech of Missouri Germans / Donald M. Lance -- Regional speech variation in Wisconsin / Craig M. Carver -- "Kentuck" English in Wisconsin's Cutover region / Donald Larmouth and Marjorie Remsing -- Elements of Midwestern speech in Oklahoma / Bruce Southard -- Regional variation in Missouri / Rachel B. Faries and Donald M. Lance -- The use of all the + comparative structure / Erik R. Thomas.
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"A publication in the Centennial series of the American Dialect Society in celebration of the beginning of its second century of research into language variation in America."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index.

Problems in Midwest English : introduction and overview / Timothy C. Frazer -- Two heartland perceptions of language variety / Dennis R. Preston -- On inland northern and the factors for dialect spread and shift / Thomas S. Donahue -- The language of Yankee cultural imperialism : pioneer ideology and "general American" / Timothy C. Frazer -- Black English and Standard English in Chicago / Andrew Sledd -- Linguistic controversies, VBE structures, and Midwest attitudes / Timothy J. Riney -- Farmer City, Illinois : sound systems shifting south / Timothy Habick -- The language of St. Louis, Missouri : dialect mixture in the urban Midwest / Thomas E. Murray -- Sound change and gender in a working-class community / Robin Herndobler -- Yankee words in Chicago Black speech / Michael I. Miller -- Positive anymore in the Midwest / Thomas E. Murray -- Some dialect features in the speech of Missouri Germans / Donald M. Lance -- Regional speech variation in Wisconsin / Craig M. Carver -- "Kentuck" English in Wisconsin's Cutover region / Donald Larmouth and Marjorie Remsing -- Elements of Midwestern speech in Oklahoma / Bruce Southard -- Regional variation in Missouri / Rachel B. Faries and Donald M. Lance -- The use of all the + comparative structure / Erik R. Thomas.

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