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Atlas of North American English
William Labov
Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change
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December 2005
318 pages ISBN: 3110167468 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The Atlas consists of a printed volume accompanied by an
interactive CD-ROM. 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 1990s 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 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.
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