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The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area.
Charles Boberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His research focuses on variation and change in North American English, particularly Canadian English and accents in film and television. He is the author of The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis (2010) and a co-author of the Atlas of North American English (with William Labov and Sharon Ash, 2006).
John Nerbonne worked at HP Labs, the German AI Center, and the University of Groningen, where he was head of Digital Humanities. He is currently an honorary professor in Freiburg. Nerbonne works in quantitative linguistics, using computational and statistical methods. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2002, and a Humboldt prize winner in 2013.
Dominic Watt is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York, UK. His research interests are in forensic phonetics and linguistics, speech perception, sociophonetics, and language and identity studies. He is co-author of English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill, 2012), and co-editor of Language and Identities (with Carmen Llamas, 2010) and Language, Borders and Identity (2014).
List of Contributors viii
Introduction 1CHARLES BOBERG, JOHN NERBONNE, AND DOMINIC WATT
Section 1: Theory (section editor: Dominic Watt) 1
Section IntroductionDOMINIC WATT
1 Dialectology, Philology, and Historical Linguistics 23RAYMOND HICKEY
2 The Dialect Dictionary 39JACQUES VAN KEYMEULEN
3 Linguistic Atlases 57WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR.
4 Structural Dialectology 73MATTHEW J. GORDON
5 Dialectology and Formal Linguistic Theory: The Blind Man and the Lame 88FRANS HINSKENS
6 Sociodialectology 106TORE KRISTIANSEN
7 Dialectometry 123HANS GOEBL
8 Dialect Contact and New Dialect Formation 143DAVID BRITAIN
9 Dialect Change in Europe—Leveling and Convergence 159PETER AUER
10 Perceptual Dialectology 177DENNIS R. PRESTON
11 Dialect Intelligibility 204CHARLOTTE GOOSKENS
12 Applied Dialectology: Dialect Coaching, Dialect Reduction, and Forensic Phonetics 219DOMINIC WATT
Section 2: Methods (section editor: John Nerbonne) 233
Section IntroductionJOHN NERBONNE
13 Dialect Sampling Methods 241RONALD MACAULAY
14 The Dialect Questionnaire 253CARMEN LLAMAS
15 Written Dialect Surveys 268J.K. CHAMBERS
16 Field Interviews in Dialectology 284GUY BAILEY
17 Corpus‐Based Approaches to Dialect Study 300BENEDIKT SZMRECSANYI AND LIESELOTTE ANDERWALD
18 Acoustic Phonetic Dialectology 314ERIK R. THOMAS
19 Computational Dialectology 330WILBERT HEERINGA AND JELENA PROKIĆ
20 Dialect Maps 348STEFAN RABANUS
21 Identifying Regional Dialects in On‐Line Social Media 368JACOB EISENSTEIN
22 Logistic Regression Analysis of Linguistic Data 384JOHN C. PAOLILLO
23 Statistics for Aggregate Variationist Analyses 400JOHN NERBONNE AND MARTIJN WIELING
24 Spatial Statistics for Dialectology 415JACK GRIEVE
Section 3: Data (section editor: Charles Boberg) 435
Section IntroductionCHARLES BOBERG
25 Dialects of British and Southern Hemisphere English 439KEVIN WATSON
26 Dialects of North American English 450CHARLES BOBERG
27 Dialects of German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian Languages 462SEBASTIAN KURSCHNER
28 Dialects of French 474DAMIEN HALL
29 Dialects of Italy 486TULLIO TELMON
30 Dialects of Spanish and Portuguese 498John M. Lipski
31 Dialects of the Slavic Languages 510VLADIMIR ZHOBOV AND RONELLE ALEXANDER
32 Dialects of Arabic 523ENAM AL‐WER AND RUDOLF DE JONG
33 Dialects in the Indo‐Aryan Landscape 535ASHWINI DEO
34 Dialects of Chinese 547CHAOJU TANG
35 Dialects of Japanese 559TAKUICHIRO ONISHI
36 Dialects of Malay/Indonesian 571ALEXANDER ADELAAR
Index 582
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