Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Piney Woods Southern 13
5. Foundations of American English 25
6. The comparability of linguistic atlas records 51
7. Terms used for children’s games 63
8. The dialects of the Middle West 81
9. Dialect change and maintenance in a post-insular island community 103
10. A comparison of variation patterns of variables among sixth graders in an Ohio community 149
11. Perceptions within a variable paradigm 169
12. Sex-based differences in language choice in an African-American neighborhood in Detroit 183
13. The English competence of Cuban exiles 195
14. What was verbal — s in 19th-century African American English? 211
15. The development of American Englishes 231
16. Historical and contemporary distribution of double modals in English 265
17. American college slang 289
18. Where the worst English is spoken 297
19. Addresses of authors 361
20. Subject index 363