In:Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at ‘Heartland’ English
Edited by Thomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon
[Varieties of English Around the World G36] 2006
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 31 January 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g36.toc
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Table of contents
Introducing the Midland: What is it, where is it, how do we know?
1. What is dialect? — Revisiting the Midland
The Evolving Midland
1. The North American Midland as a dialect area
2. Tracking the low back merger in Missouri
3. Evidence from Ohio on the evolution of /ae/
Defining The Midland
4. On the use of geographic names to inform regional language studies
5. On the eastern edge of the Heartland: Two industrial city dialects
6. The final days of Appalachian Heritage Language
8. It’ll kill ye or cure ye, one: The history and function of alternative one — antecedents of the Midland
Power and Perception
7. Standardizing the Heartland
10. How to get to be one kind of Midwesterner: Accommodation to the Northern Cities Chain Shift
11. Midland(s) dialect geography: Social and demographic variables
12. Drawing out the /ai/: Dialect boundaries and /ai/ variation
Other Languages, Other Places
13. Learning Spanish in the North Georgia Mountains
14. The Midland above the Midland: Dialect variation by region, sex, and social group in the linguistic atlas of the Upper Midwest
15. Portable Community: The linguistic and psychological reality of Midwestern Pennsylvania German
16. The English of the Swiss Amish of Northeastern Indiana
References
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