Abstract
This chapter focuses on phonological analysis prepared for the third and final volume of the Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest (LAUM), along with the treatment of the lexicon and the grammar in the first two volumes, adds measurably to the sociolinguistic data available not only to dialectologists but also to students and teachers of usage, to textbook writers, and to sociolinguists. Although within the 800-item corpus of the Upper Midwest worksheets more attention is given specifically to the vocabulary, the lexicon is not very significant in exhibiting social contrast. Several of the miscellaneous grammatical items recorded during the interviews provide more positive social markers than do the strong verbs. Greater inconsistency appears in the contrast between two locutions in which a numeral precedes a modified noun. Two syntactic constructions with relative clauses yield variants providing rather sharp social contrast.
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