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The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool / by William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Labov, William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--North America.
- English language.
- English language--Dialects--North America.
- English language--Variation--North America.
- Americanisms.
- Canadianisms.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Atlas of North American English provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. The Atlas re-defines the regional dialects of American English on the basis of sound changes active in the 1990's and draws new boundaries reflecting those changes. It is based on a telephone survey of 762 local speakers, representing all the urbanized areas of North America. It has been developed by Bill Labov, one of the leading sociolinguists of the world, together with his colleagues Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg. The Atlas consists of a printed volume accompanied by an interactive CD-ROM. The print and multimedia content is also available online. Combined Edition: Book and Multimedia CD-ROM The book contains 23 chapters that re-define the geographic boundaries of North American dialects and trace the influence of gender, age, education, and city size on the progress of sound change; findings that show a dramatic and increasing divergence of English in North America; 139 four color maps that illustrate the regional distribution of phonological and phonetic variables across the North American continent; 120 four color vowel charts of individual speakers. The multimedia CD-ROM supplements the articles and maps by providing a data base with measurements of more than 100,000 vowels and mean values for 439 speakers; the Plotnik program for mapping each of the individual vowel systems; extended sound samples of all North American dialects; multimedia applications to enhance classroom presentations. Online Version: Book and CD-ROM content plus additional data The online version comprises the contents of the book and the multimedia CD-ROM along with additional data. It presents a wider selection of data, maps, and audio samples that will be recurrently updated; proffers simultaneous access to the information contained in the book and on the multimedia CD-ROM to all users in the university/library network; provides students with easy access to research material for classroom assignments. For more information, please contact Mouton de Gruyter: customerservice@degruyter.com System Requirements for CD-ROM and Online Version Windows PC: Pentium PC, Windows 9x, NT, or XP, at least 16MB RAM, CD-ROM Drive, 16 Bit Soundcard, SVGA (600 x 800 resolution) Apple MAC: OS 6 or higher, 16 Bit Soundcard, at least 16MB RAM Supported Browsers: Internet Explorer, 5.5 or 6 (Mac OS: Internet Explorer 5.1)/Netscape 7.x or higher/Mozilla 1.0 or higher/Mozilla Firefox 1.0 or higher PlugIns: Macromedia Flash Player 6/Acrobat Reader
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Table of contents
- Introduction and methods
- 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
- Mergers and contrasts
- The restoration of post-vocalic /r/
- Nearly completed mergers
- North American mergers in progress
- North American English vowels
- The vowels of North American English: Maps of natural breaks in F1 and F2
- Overviews of North American dialects
- The dialects of North American English
- The fronting of back upgliding vowels
- The short-a and short-o configurations
- Regional patterns
- The North
- Canada
- New England
- New York City and the Mid-Atlantic states
- The South
- The Midland
- The West
- Other views of regional differences
- Lexical and grammatical maps
- African-Americans
- The findings of the Atlas of North American English: An overview
- References
- Index of subjects, city names, and persons
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612196690
- 9781282196698
- 1282196693
- 9783110206838
- 3110206838
- OCLC:
- 435912024
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