LEADER 05924nam 2200733Ia 450 001 996199258503316 005 20221206174607.0 010 $a1-282-19669-3 010 $a9786612196690 010 $a3-11-020683-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110167467 035 $a(CKB)1000000000389431 035 $a(EBL)453906 035 $a(OCoLC)435912024 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107262 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11141548 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107262 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10006127 035 $a(PQKB)10616465 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC453906 035 $a(DE-B1597)34378 035 $a(OCoLC)979759175 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110206838 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL453906 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10255190 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL219669 035 $a(OCoLC)935268846 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000389431 100 $a20050923d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe atlas of North American English$b[electronic resource] $ephonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool /$fby William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (334 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-016746-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-313) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tTable of contents --$tIntroduction and methods --$tIntroduction --$tThe North American English vowel system --$tPrinciples of chain shifting and mergers --$tSampling and field methods --$tMethods of acoustic analysis --$tThe construction of isoglosses --$tMergers and contrasts --$tThe restoration of post-vocalic /r/ --$tNearly completed mergers --$tNorth American mergers in progress --$tNorth American English vowels --$tThe vowels of North American English: Maps of natural breaks in F1 and F2 --$tOverviews of North American dialects --$tThe dialects of North American English --$tThe fronting of back upgliding vowels --$tThe short-a and short-o configurations --$tRegional patterns --$tThe North --$tCanada --$tNew England --$tNew York City and the Mid-Atlantic states --$tThe South --$tThe Midland --$tThe West --$tOther views of regional differences --$tLexical and grammatical maps --$tAfrican-Americans --$tThe findings of the Atlas of North American English: An overview --$tReferences --$tIndex of subjects, city names, and persons 330 $aThe 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. 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