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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY MOUTON DE GRUYTER</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Raymond Hickey<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;text-transform:uppercase'>A Sound Atlas of Irish
English<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>2004. x, 174 pages. Book and DVD. Cloth.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>€ 98.00 / sFr 157.00 / approx. US$ 127.00<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>ISBN 3-11-018298-X<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>(Topics in English Linguistics 48)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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href="http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-311018298X-1&l=E">http://www.degruyter.de/rs/bookSingle.cfm?id=IS-311018298X-1&l=E</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>A Sound Atlas of Irish English offers a unique and
comprehensive audio overview of the English language as spoken in present-day <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
In all, there are over 1,500 recordings which were made between the mid 1990s
and 2002. The recordings cover both genders and all ages (from 11 to over 80).
Each county of the 32 in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is represented and there is a proper spread according to population. The
capitals, <st1:City w:st="on">Belfast</st1:City> and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Dublin</st1:place></st1:City>, have large numbers of speakers,
making the Sound Atlas particularly suitable for sociolinguistic work within a
variationist framework. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>All the data can be accessed easily from the supplied
DVD by means of a Java application which allows the user to browse among the
data by county and to view and listen to lexical set realisations and free
text. The DVD contains much additional information about Irish English -
varieties, historical development, current distribution, etc. - as does the
accompanying book which offers many details concerning specific features of
forms of Irish English and information on the methodology used for the sound
atlas. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>A Sound Atlas of Irish English has a twofold purpose.
It is on the one hand a research tool for those scholars who are interested in
Irish English from an internal point of view, so to speak, and on the other
hand it is a source of reliable and up-to-date information on the kinds of
English spoken in Ireland and which can be used for comparative work, e.g. when
looking at the sources of features found in varieties around the world, such as
US English, Canadian, Australian/New Zealand English and the like. The Sound
Atlas can be used by academics and students alike. With the Sound Atlas,
students can gain a much clearer picture of Irish English by listening to the
sound files. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The sound atlas is supplemented by A Survey of Irish
English Usage which consists of over 1,000 questionnaires from speakers with
information on the acceptance of grammatical features specific to Irish
English. The data of the survey, along with analytical software, is contained
on the DVD and discussed in the book. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Students and Researchers working on Varieties of
English, Dialectology, Language Variation and Change; American and Canadian
Scholars Looking at the Roots of New World English; Teachers of
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Raymond Hickey is Professor of English Linguistics at <st1:place
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