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Title African American English speakers and their participation in local sound changes : a comparative study / edited by Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Erik R. Thomas.

Publication Info. Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.

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 Moore Stacks  PE3102.B54 A37 2010    Available  ---
Description viii, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 94
Publication of the American Dialect Society ; no. 94.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Erik R. Thomas and Malcah Yaeger-Dror -- Vowel phonology and ethnicity in North Carolina / Becky Childs, Christine Mallinson and Jeannine Carpenter -- Mapping a dialect "mixtury" : vowel phonology of African American and white men in rural southern Louisiana / Michael Wroblewski, Thea Strand, and Sylvie Dubois -- African American vernacular English : vowel phonology in a Georgia community / Claire Andres and Rachel Votta -- The vowel phonologies of African American and white New York City residents / Elizabeth L. Coggshall and Kara Becker -- African American and white vowel systems in Pittsburgh / Maeve Eberhardt -- Convergence in blue-collar Columbus, Ohio, African American and white vowel system / David Durian, Robin Dodsworth and Jennifer Schumacher -- The vowel phonology of urban southeastern Wisconsin / Thomas C. Purnell.
Subject Black English -- Phonology.
Black English -- Phonology.
Black English.
English language -- Dialects -- United States.
English language -- Dialects.
United States.
Sociolinguistics -- United States.
Sociolinguistics.
Added Author Yaeger-Dror, Malcah.
Thomas, Erik R.
ISBN 9780822367321 cloth alkaline paper
0822367327 cloth alkaline paper