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1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
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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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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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 |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- Variation -- Middle West.
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English language -- Variation. |
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Middle West. |
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English language -- Dialects -- Middle West.
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English language -- Dialects. |
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English language -- Middle West.
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English language. |
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Middle West -- Languages.
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Language and languages. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Murray, Thomas E. (Thomas Edward), 1956-
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Simon, Beth Lee.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Language variation and change in the American midland. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2006 (DLC) 2005053635 |
| ISBN |
9789027293541 (electronic book) |
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9027293546 (electronic book) |
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9789027248961 (alkaline paper) |
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9027248966 (alkaline paper) |
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9027248966 (alkaline paper) |
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