New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South : Historical and Contemporary Approaches.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction - Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies -- Part I. Historical Approaches -- Indigenous Languages -- 2. American Indian Languages of the Southeast: An Introduction - Pamela Munro -- 3. A Profile of the Caddo Language - Wallace Chafe -- 4. The Ofo Language of Louisiana: Recovery of Grammar and Typology - Robert L. Rankin -- 5. Timucua-ta: Muskogean Parallels - George Aaron Broadwell -- 6. Pre-Columbian Links to the Caribbean: Evidence Connecting Cusabo to Taíno - Blair A. Rudes -- Earlier Englishes of the South -- 7. The Crucial Century for English in the American South - Michael B. Montgomery -- 8. Southern American English in Perspective: A Quantitative Comparison with Other English and American Dialects - Robert Shackleton -- 9. Some Developments in Southern American English Grammar - Jan Tillery -- 10. Francis Lieber's Americanisms as an Early Source on Southern Speech - Stuart Davis -- 11. Earlier Southern Englishes in Black and White: Corpus-Based Approaches - Edgar W. Schneider -- The African Diaspora -- 12. Some Early Creole-Like Data from Slave Speakers: The Island of St. Helena, 1695-1711 - Laura Wright -- 13. Regional Variation in Nineteenth-Century African American English - Gerard Van Herk -- 14. Prima Facie Evidence for the Persistence of Creole Features in AfricanAmericanEnglish and Evidence for Residual Creole - David Sutcliffe -- 15. The Linguistic Status of Gullah-Geechee: Divergent Phonological Processes - Thomas B. Klein -- Earlier French of the Gulf South -- 16. French Dialects of Louisiana: A Revised Typology - Michael D. Picone -- 17. From French to English in Louisiana: The Prudhomme Family's Story - Connie C. Eble -- Part II. Contemporary Approaches -- Across the South -- 18. The South in DARE Revisited - Joan Houston Hall and Luanne von Schneidemesser.

19. The South: Still Different - Dennis R. Preston -- 20. Demography as Destiny? Population Change and the Future of Southern American English - Guy Bailey -- English in the Contemporary South: Persistence and Change -- 21. A Century of Sound Change in Alabama - Crawford Feagin -- 22. Various Variation Aggregates in the LAMSAS South - John Nerbonne -- 23. The Persistence of Dialect Features - Sylvie Dubois and Barbara Horvath -- English in the Contemporary South: Discourse Approaches -- 24. Southern Storytelling: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives - Catherine Evans Davies -- 25. The Southern and Southwestern Discourse Styles of Two Texas Women - Judith M. Bean -- 26. We Ain't Done Yet: Dialect Depiction and Language Ideology - Rachel Shuttlesworth Thompson -- English in the Contemporary South: African American Language Issues -- 27. Race, Racialism, and the Study of Language Evolution in America - Salikoko Mufwene -- 28. The Language of Black Women in the Smoky Mountain Region of Appalachia - Christine Mallinson and Becky Childs -- 29. The Sound Symbolism of Self in Innovative Naming Practices inan African American Community - Janis B. Nuckolls and Linda Beito -- English in the Contemporary South: Black and White Speech and the Complexities of Relationship -- 30. An Experiment on Cues Used for Identification of Voices as African American or European American - Erik R. Thomas and Jeffrey Reaser -- 31. What We Hear and What It Expresses: The Perception and Meaning ofVowel Differences among Dialects - Valerie Fridland and Kathryn Bartlett -- 32. A Quantitative Acoustic Approach to /ai/ Glide-Weakening among Detroit African American and Appalachian White Southern Migrants - Bridget L. Anderson -- 33. The Spread of the cot/caught Merger in the Speech of Memphians: An Ethnolinguistic Marker? - Valerie Fridland.

34. Phonological Variation in Louisiana ASL: An Exploratory Study - Robert Bayley and Ceil Lucas -- English in the Contemporary South: Language and Identity -- 35. Constructing Identity: The Use of a-Prefixing and Nonstandard Past Tense in Narration to Create a Community Voice - Allison Burkette -- 36. Negotiating Linguistic Capital in Economic Decline: Dialect Change in Mill Villager and Farmer Speech - Lisa D. McNair -- 37. Lexical Features of Jewish English in the Southern United States - Cynthia Bernstein -- Louisiana French -- 38. Beyond Cajun: Toward an Expanded View of Regional French in Louisiana - Thomas A. Klingler -- 39. Whither Cajun French: Language Persistence and Dialectal Upsurges - Sylvie Dubois -- Latino Language Issues -- 40. Is "Spanglish" the Third Language of the South? Truth and Fantasy about US Spanish - John M. Lipski -- 41. Language Acquisition and Social Integration of Hispanics in Northeast Mississippi - Patricia Manning Lestrade -- 42. Puerto Rican Spanish in South Texas: Variation in Subject Personal Pronouns - Carlos Martin Vélez Salas, Belinda Treviño Schouten, Norma Cárdenas, and Robert Bayley -- Language in the South and the Public Interest -- 43. Stylization, Aging, and Cultural Competence: Why Health Care in the South Needs Linguistics - Boyd Davis and Dena Shenk -- 44. Sociolinguistic Engagement in Community Perspective - Walt Wolfram -- Conclusion: Perspectives, Achievements, and Remaining Challenges - Walt Wolfram -- Contributors -- Index.

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