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