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Atlas of North American English

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William Labov, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg

Atlas of North American English
Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change


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	Combined Edition: Book and multimedia CD-ROM ISBN 978-3-11-016746-7
	Online Version: Book and CD-ROM content plus additional data ISBN 978-3-11-018012-1

The Atlas of North American English provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. The Atlas redefines the regional dialects of American English on the basis of sound changes active in the 1990s and draws new boundaries reflecting those changes. It is based on a telephone survey of 762 local speakers, representing all the urbanized areas of North America. It has been developed by Bill Labov, one of the world’s leading sociolinguists, together with his colleagues Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg.

The Atlas consists of a book accompanied by a multimedia CD-ROM. The content of the book and the multimedia CD-ROM along with additional data is also available online.

William Labov is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and Director of the Linguistics Laboratory there. He is the author of major studies of the social stratification of English in New York City and Philadelphia, and surveys of sound changes in progress throughout the English speaking world. He is past-president of the Linguistic Society of America and a member of the National Academy of Sciences..

Sharon Ash is Associate Director of the Linguistics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and the author of many studies of sound change in progress in Philadelphia and the mid-Atlantic States.

Charles Boberg is Associate Professor at McGill University, Montréal, Canada and Director of the McGill Dialectology and Sociolinguistics Laboratory. He has developed the North American Regional Vocabulary Survey and is the author of studies of the Phonetics of Montreal English and Canadian English.

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