LSA Summer Institute 2015
American Dialectology
Tuesday and Friday, 8:30-10:20
Fr
Topic
July 7 What are American
dialects?
July 10 History
Tu
July 14
Fr
Tu
July 17
July 21
Fr
July 24
Tu
July 28
Fr
July 31
Tu
Reading(s)
Wolfram, Labov
Dillard, Purnell
et al.
Social mechanisms D’Arcy, Wong &
Hall-Lew
‘Regard’
Preston, Evans
Establishing
Campbell-Kibler
varieties
& Bauer,
Thomas &
Yeager-Dror
Sounds
Schuld et al.,
Salmons et al.
Syntax
Benson,
Zanuttini
Discussion, brief presentations
Other business
Introduction, projects (initial
brainstorm)
Project proposal
Readings
Benson, Erica J. 2012. "Everyone wants in: Want + prepositional adverb in the Midland
and Beyond." Journal of English Linguistics 40. 224-255.
D’Arcy, Alexandra. 2015. Variation, transmission and incrementation. Oxford Handbook
of Historical Phonology, ed. Patrick Honeybone & Joseph Salmons, 583-602.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Dillard, J.L. 1992. Early diversity, levelling and rediversification. A History of American
English, 32-59. London: Longman.
Labov, William. The Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America.
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ICSLP4.html
Preston, Preston R. 2013. The influence of regard on language variation and change.
Journal of Pragmatics 52. 93-104.
Purnell, Thomas, Eric Raimy & Joseph Salmons. Forthcoming. Upper Midwestern
English. Listening to the Past, ed. Raymond Hickey. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Salmons, Joseph, Robert Fox & Ewa Jacewicz. 2012. Prosodic skewing of input and the
initiation of cross-generational sound change. The initiation of sound change:
Production, perception and social factors, ed. by Maria-Josep Solé & Daniel
Recasens, 167-184. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Schuld, Danielle, et al. 2015. Hearing a new accent: Changing perceptions of Wisconsin
English over time. Manuscript.
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Wolfram, Walt & Natalie Schilling-Estes. 2006. Dialects, standards and vernaculars.
American English, 1-26. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Zanuttini, Raffaella. 2014. North American English: Exploring the syntactic frontier.
Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English, ed. Raffaella Zanuttini &
Laurence R. Horn, 1-28. Oxford: Oxford University Press.