Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese.

Intro -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- A note on notation -- Chapter 1. Geography, demography, and culture -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 History and topography -- 1.3 Current demographics -- 1.4 Pittsburgh as a dialect area -- 1.5 Data and methods -- Chapter 2. Phonetics and phonology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Mergers and a split -- 2.2.1 The low back merger -- 2.2.2 Mergers before /l/ -- 2.2.3 Split of TRAP and STAN -- 2.3 Phonetic shifts -- 2.3.1 The Pittsburgh Chain Shift -- 2.3.2 Fronting of GOOSE and GOAT -- 2.4 Monophthongization -- 2.4.1 Monophthongization of MOUTH -- 2.4.2 Monophthongization of PRICE -- 2.5 Consonantal features -- 2.5.1 L-vocalization and /l/-insertion -- 2.5.2 Epenthetic /r/ before /?/ -- 2.6 Regional word forms -- Chapter 3. Morphology and syntax -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Complementation of need, want, and like -- 3.3 Positive anymore -- 3.4 Punctual whenever -- 3.5 Merger of leave and let -- 3.6 Preposition-noun compounding -- 3.7 Yinz -- Chapter 4. Lexis and discourse -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A glossary of Pittsburgh English -- 4.3 Word-formation processes -- 4.3.1 Borrowing -- 4.3.2 Derivation -- 4.3.3 Compounding -- 4.3.4 Semantic re-analysis -- 4.3.5 Phonological re-analysis -- 4.3.6 Reduplication -- 4.3.7 Contraction -- 4.3.8 Metathesis -- 4.3.9 Trade names -- 4.3.10 Euphemism -- 4.4 Discourse marking features -- 4.4.1 Pennsylvania Dutch question intonation -- 4.4.2 N'at -- 4.5 Discussion -- Chapter 5. African American English in Pittsburgh -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 African Americans in Pittsburgh -- 5.3 Features of supraregional AAVE -- 5.4 Regional phonological features -- 5.5 Other regional features -- 5.6 Pittsburghese: monophthongal MOUTH and yinz -- 5.7 Conclusions -- Chapter 6. History and trajectory -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Scotch-Irish.

6.2.1 From Scotch-Irish English to American English -- 6.3 Other influences on Pittsburgh speech -- 6.4 Attitudes towards Pittsburgh speech -- 6.5 From Pittsburgh speech to Pittsburghese -- 6.5.1 What does hahs sound like? -- 6.5.2 Noticing local speech -- 6.5.3 Pittsburghese in the daily papers -- 6.5.4 The "New Yinzers" -- 6.6 The future? -- Appendix. Annotated bibliography -- 1 Web sources about American dialects -- 2 Print sources about American dialects -- 3 Web sources about speech in Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania -- 4 Print sources on speech in Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania -- 5 Print sources on Pittsburghese -- References -- Index.

The Dialects of English series provides concise, accessible, authoritative, and up-to-date documentation for varieties of English, including English-based pidgins and creoles, from all over the English-speaking world. Written by experts who have conducted first-hand research, the volumes are the most obvious starting point for readers who would like to know more about a particular regional, urban or ethnic variety. The volumes follow a common structure, covering the context in which one clearly defined variety of English (or a number of closely related varieties) has been established as well as their phonetics and phonology, morphosyntax, lexis and social history. Each volume concludes with an annotated bibliography and some sample texts.

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