American Regional Dialects: A Word GeographyUniversity of Michigan Press, 1987 - 317 páginas This text describes the dialect areas of the United States. Focusing on some 2,000 dialect expressions, it traces cultural and historical forces that have shaped these speech regions and given them their characteristic vocabularies. The author not only explains the genesis and character of the dialects, but also explores the geographical and etymological origins of many unique words and phrases in the various dialects. Nearly 100 maps help define the dialect boundaries and individual isoglosses. |
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CHAPTER | 1 |
New England and the Northeast | 21 |
The North | 53 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Alabama American English Appalachians Arkansas Atlantic South Atwood bread called cheese coastal colonial Connecticut core corn cultural regions currency DARE fieldwork DARE informants DARE Isoglosses defined Delta South dialect boundaries dialect layer dialect region east Eastern New England Eastern North English dialect especially example expressions Georgia German hearth Hudson Valley Illinois Indiana Inland North Inland South layer Jersey Kentucky known Kurath Layer Based Layer Map lexicon Linguistic Atlas linguistic geography loanwords Louisiana Lower South Lower South layers Massachusetts Midland layer Mississippi North Carolina North map North-and-West Northeast northwestern Ohio River originated piedmont plow primarily primary boundary probably refer relatively rural Scotch-Irish secondary boundaries settled settlers South layers Southeastern Pennsylvania southern California Southwest Spanish speakers speech region spread subdialect subregions sugar maple Tennessee tertiary Texas throughout Upper Midwest Upper North Upper North-and-West Upstate New York usage usually Virginia West western westward words
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American English: Dialects and Variation Walt Wolfram,Natalie Schilling-Estes Pré-visualização indisponível - 2005 |
International English: A Guide to Varieties of Standard English Peter Trudgill,Jean Hannah Pré-visualização indisponível - 2002 |