"Supplement to American Speech, Volume 86."--Title page.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-194) and index.
Contents
The history of Pennsylvania German: from Europe to the Midwest -- Variation in Pennsylvania German: previous dialectological studies -- Methods and community descriptions -- The Midwestern vowel: monophthongization of "a" -- Midwestern consonants: variation in the liquids "r" and "l" -- Midwestern words: lexical and morphological variation -- Regional identity, ethnoreligious ideology, and change.