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1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Varieties of English around the world. General series, 0172-7362 ; v. G36 |
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Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 36
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| Contents |
Introducing the Midland: what is it, where is it, how do we know? / Beth Simon -- What is dialect? Revisiting the Midland / Thomas E. Murray, Beth Lee Simon -- North American Midland as a dialect area / Sharon Ash -- Tracking the low back merger in Missouri / Matthew J. Gordon -- Evidence from Ohio on the evolution of /æ/ Erik R. Thomas -- On the use of geographic names to inform regional language studies / Edward Callary -- On the eastern edge of the Heartland: two industrial city dialects / Thomas S. Donahue -- Final days of Appalachian Heritage Language / Kirk Hazen -- It'll kill ye or cure ye, one: the history and function of alternative one / Michael Montgomery -- Standardizing the Heartland / Richard W. Bailey -- How to get to be one kind of Midwesterner: accommodation to the Northern Cities Chain Shift / Betsy E. Evans [and others] -- Midland(s) dialect geography: social and demographic variables / Timothy Frazer -- Drawing out the /ai/: dialect boundaries and /ai/ variation / Cynthia Bernstein -- Learning Spanish in the north Georgia mountains / Ellen Johnson, David Boyle -- Midland above the Midland: dialect variation by region, sex, and social group in the linguistic atlas of the Upper Midwest / Michael D. Linn, ronald Regal -- Portable community: the linguistic and psychological reality of Midwestern Pennsylvania German / Steven Hartman Keiser -- English of the Swiss Amish of northeastern Indiana / Chad Thompson |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English language -- Variation -- Middle West
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English language -- Dialects -- Middle West
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English language -- Middle West
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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English language
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English language -- Dialects
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English language -- Variation
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Language and languages
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| SUBJECT |
Middle West -- Languages.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001659
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Middle West
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Murray, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1956-
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Simon, Beth Lee.
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| LC no. |
2005053635 |
| ISBN |
9789027293541 |
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9027293546 |
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9789027248961 |
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9027248966 |
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1282155849 |
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9781282155848 |
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9786612155840 |
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6612155841 |
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