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The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool

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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.

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Labov, William.

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xiv, 318 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 31 x 41 cm +

Summary

Accompanying CD-ROM and website contain ... "a data base with measurements of more than 100,000 vowels and mean values for 439 speakers; extended sound samples of all North American dialects; multimedia material for further study; multimedia applications to enhance classroom presentations"--Page 4 of cover.

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CD-ROM
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details (note)

System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Windows 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP or Mac OS 9x, X, 10.x/Linux (any distribution with Kernel 2.0 or higher); Supported browsers: IE 5.5, Safari 1.2.3. or higher / Mozilla 1.0 or higher / Netscape 7.x / Mozilla Firefox0.8 or higher; Plugins: Macromedia Flash Player 6 or higher / Acrobat Reader (4 or higher) Minimum requirements: Pentium 500 MHz or AMD K6-III+ 500 MHz, PowerPC G3, 64 MB RAM, 16bit Soundcard.

Contents

Introduction -- The North American English vowel system -- Principles of chain shifting and mergers -- Sampling methods -- Methods of acoustic analysis -- The construction of isoglosses -- The restoration of post-vocalic /r/ -- Nearly completed mergers -- North American mergers in progress -- The vowels of North American English -- The dialects of North American English -- The fronting of back upgliding vowels -- The short-a and short-o configurations -- The North -- Canada -- New England -- New York City and the mid-Atlantic states -- The South -- The Midland -- The West -- Lexical and grammatical maps -- African-Americans -- The atlas of North American English : an overview.

Call Number

PE2808

ISBN

9783110167467
3110167468
9783110206838
3110206838
9783119160117
3119160113
311018012X
9783110180121

LCCN

2005027981
10.1515/9783110167467
10.1515/9783110206838
9783110167467

OCLC

61758568

Author

Labov, William.

Title

The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool / by William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg.

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details

System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Windows 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP or Mac OS 9x, X, 10.x/Linux (any distribution with Kernel 2.0 or higher); Supported browsers: IE 5.5, Safari 1.2.3. or higher / Mozilla 1.0 or higher / Netscape 7.x / Mozilla Firefox0.8 or higher; Plugins: Macromedia Flash Player 6 or higher / Acrobat Reader (4 or higher) Minimum requirements: Pentium 500 MHz or AMD K6-III+ 500 MHz, PowerPC G3, 64 MB RAM, 16bit Soundcard.

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