This book examines phonological variation of the inhabitants of Coleraine, a small town in Northern Ireland. Its purpose is to identify some of the mechanisms involved in language change by focusing on one variety of Hiberno-English Ulster Scots in a small urban community. Kingsmore concentrates in particular on the social and family networks of this urban working-class community and their influence on the status and stigma of competing nonstandard pronunciations. The author identifies some of the innovators of phonological change and some social and linguistic barriers to change. This...
This book examines phonological variation of the inhabitants of Coleraine, a small town in Northern Ireland. Its purpose is to identify some of the...
Thomas M. Nunnally Lee Pederson Michael B. Montgomery
This collection of essays demonstrates the importance of the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States (LAGS) as a defining linguistic study of this century, though one of the most underused.
Emory University's Lee Pedersen directed and brought to completion the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States, a cumulative study of the language patterns for eight states of the interior South, from Georgia west to Texas. The essays comprising From the Gulf States and Beyond include a comprehensive introduction to and assessment of that mammoth project along with ten...
This collection of essays demonstrates the importance of the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States (LAGS) as a defining linguistic study of this<...
Lorenzo Dow Turner Katherine Wyly Mille Michael B. Montgomery
A unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ignored linguistic phenomenon until the publication of Lorenzo Dow Turner's landmark volume Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect. In his classic treatise, Turner, the first professionally trained African American linguist, focused on a people whose language had long been misunderstood, lifted a shroud that had obscured the true history of Gullah, and demonstrated that it drew important linguistic features directly from the languages of West Africa....
A unique creole language spoken on the coastal islands and adjacent mainland of South Carolina and Georgia, Gullah existed as an isolated and largely ...
