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In:American Dialect Research: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889–1989
Edited by Dennis R. Preston
[Not in series 68] 1993
► pp. ix–xv

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Published online: 7 June 1993
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Table of contents

Preface1
I. Area Studies
The historical and cultural interpretation of dialect13
An approach to linguistic geography: The Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States31
Area Lexicon: the making of DARE93
Some applications of mathematical and statistical models in dialect geography107
Sociolinguistic dialectology133
II. Community Studies
Adapting dialectology: the conduct of community language studies167
Identifying and interpreting variables193
The quantitative analysis of linguistic variation223
III. Group Studies
Variation theory and language contact: concepts, methods and data251
A perspective on African-American English287
Professional varieties: the case of language and law319
IV. Special Topics
Folk dialectology333
The patterning of variation in performance379
Appendix
Resources for research433
Index451
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