Labov et al, Atlas of North American English (Mouton de Gruyter)

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NEW PUBLICATION BY MOUTON DE GRUYTER

William Labov, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg

Atlas of North American English

Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change

A Multimedia Reference Tool

2005. Combined edition: book and multimedia CD-ROM. Xviii, 320 pages.
129 four color maps. ISBN 3-11-016746-8

Date of Publication: 12/2005 

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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.
Starting in January 2006, the content of the book and the multimedia
CD-ROM along with additional data will also be available online. 

The book contains

*         23 chapters that re-define the geographic boundaries of North
American dialects and trace the influence of gender, age, education, and
city size on the progress of sound change. 

*         findings that show a dramatic and increasing divergence of
English dialects as vowels in different regions are rotated in opposite
directions by the Northern Cities Shift, the Southern Shift, the
Canadian Shift, and other sweeping changes that are affecting the North
American continent as a whole;

*         139 four color maps that illustrate the regional distribution
of phonological and phonetic variables across North America;

*         120 four color vowel charts of individual speakers.

The multimedia CD-ROM supplements the articles and maps by providing 

*         a data base with measurements of more than 100,000 vowels and
mean values for 439 speakers;

*         extended sound samples of all North American dialects;

*         multimedia material for further study;

*         interactive applications to enhance classroom presentations.

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