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Additional authors

1. Ash, Sharon.
2. Boberg, Charles.

Description

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

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. English language > Variation
2. Canadianisms
3. English language > Variation > North America
4. Americanisms
5. CD-ROM
6. Reference works
7. Sprachwandel
8. Amerikanisches Englisch
9. Phonologie
10. Mundart
11. North America
12. English language > North America
13. Phonetik
14. English language > Dialects > North America
15. Geschichte 1990-2000

Genre/Form

1. CD-ROM
2. Reference works.

Contents

1. 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

1. PE2808

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

System details (note)

1. 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.

Author

1. Labov, William.

Title

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

Imprint

1. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2006.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

System details

1. 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.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents
2. Table of contents
3. Table of contents
4. Table of contents
5. Online version
6. Volltext
7. Volltext
8. Volltext // Ergänzende Datenbank
9. Klappentext
10. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2658898&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm
11. Klappentext
12. Klappentext

Chronological term

1. Geschichte 1990-2000.

Added author

1. Ash, Sharon.
2. Boberg, Charles.

LCCN

1. 2005027981

Other standard identifier

1. 10.1515/9783110167467 doi
2. 10.1515/9783110206838 doi
3. 9783110167467 (acid-free paper)

ISBN

1. 9783110167467 (bk. with CD-ROM ; acid-free paper)
2. 3110167468 (bk. with CD-ROM ; acid-free paper)
3. 9783110206838
4. 3110206838
5. 9783119160117
6. 3119160113
7. 311018012X
8. 9783110180121

Research call number

1. PE2808 .L26 2006 [Text]
2. *WGC-8763 [CD-ROM]