Focus on the USA

Abstract

1. Introduction: Research trends in the study of American English (by Schneider, Edgar W.) 2. Piney Woods Southern (by Pederson, Lee) 3. Foundations of American English (by Kretzschmar, Jr., William A.) 4. The comparability of linguistic atlas records: The case of LANCS and LAGS (by Davis, Lawrence M.) 5. Terms used for children's games: Comparing DARE's findings with usage of today's youth (by Schneidemesser, Luanne von) 6. The dialects of the Middle West (by Frazer, Timothy C.) 7. Dialect change and maintenance in a post-insular island community (by Wolfram, Walt) 8. A comparison of variation patterns of variables among sixth graders in an Ohio community (by Thomas, Erik R.) 9. Perceptions within a variable paradigm: Black and white detection and identification based on speech (by Baugh, John) 10. Sex-based differences in language choice in an African-American neighborhood in Detroit (by Edwards, Walter F.) 11. The English competence of Cuban exiles: The case of noun pluralization (by Maas, Frank) 12. What was verbal - s in 19th-century African American English? (by Montgomery, Michael) 13. The development of American Englishes: Some questions from a creole genesis perspective (by Mufwene, Salikoko S.) 14. Historical and contemporary distribution of double modals in English (by Fennell, Barbara A.) 15. American college slang (by Eble, Connie) 16. Where the worst English is spoken (by Preston, Dennis R.) 17. Addresses of authors 18. Subject index