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In:Focus on the USA
Edited by Edgar W. Schneider
[Varieties of English Around the World G16] 1996
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 29 February 1996
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Introduction: Research trends in the study of American English1
Piney Woods Southern13
Foundations of American English25
The comparability of linguistic atlas records: The case of LANCS and LAGS51
Terms used for children’s games: Comparing DARE’s findings with usage of today’s youth63
The dialects of the Middle West81
Dialect change and maintenance in a post-insular island community103
A comparison of variation patterns of variables among sixth graders in an Ohio community149
Perceptions within a variable paradigm: Black and white detection and identification based on speech169
Sex-based differences in language choice in an African-American neighborhood in Detroit183
The English competence of Cuban exiles: The case of noun pluralization195
What was verbal — s in 19th-century African American English?211
The development of American Englishes: Some questions from a creole genesis perspective231
Historical and contemporary distribution of double modals in English265
American college slang289
Where the worst English is spoken297
Addresses of authors361
Subject index363
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