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Peer reviewedKretzschmar, William A., Jr. – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Presents an objective quantitative analysis of separate dialect features from the "Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States." Findings suggest that a mathematical modeling of areal variation of dialect features, combined with a reassessment of traditional notions of dialect, could contribute to knowledge of language and…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Language Classification, Language Research, Models
Peer reviewedSanta Ana, A. Otto – Language Variation and Change, 1996
Three analyses of /-t,d/ deletion are undertaken to investigate whether convergence with the matrix regional dialect has taken place in Los Angeles Chicano English. Two superficial analyses mistakenly find convergence. A third emic multivariate analysis finds no phonological convergence. (33 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, English, Matrices, Mexican Americans
Peer reviewedSchilling-Estes, Natalie; Wolfram, Walt – Language, 1999
Comparison of the moribund dialects of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, and Smith Island, Maryland, demonstrates that valuable insight into the patterning of variation and change in language death can be obtained by investigating moribund varieties of healthy languages. Discusses comparative investigation of two kinds of linguistic decay:…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects
