request for info

Donald M. Lance LanceDM at MISSOURI.EDU
Fri Jan 28 05:41:35 UTC 2000


RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> Ceil Lucas asks:
>
> <<[Where can I find] something, if it exists, that summarizes recent work on
> lexical variation in English (and/or spoken languages)- i.e. a review of work
> from the atlas word-lists to more recent stuff that might have been
> influenced by
> quantitative Labovian studies-  Does such a review exist?>>
>
> Please reply to her, <Ceil.Lucas at gallaudet.edu>, cc. to me.

Not much specific detail such as lists, but a 36-page essay in AMERICAN PRONUNCIATION,
12th edition revised, published by George Wahr Co, 1994.  It's the source of the ADS
t-shirt map.

DMLance



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