LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN THE US

AN INTRODUCTION

Chapter 4

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67 4.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Tfbeqyu2U&list=ECA03075BAD88B909E The History of English in Ten Minutes, Anglo-Saxon.
68 4.2 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/booksvideo/8135302/ Beowulf Read Aloud.
69 4.3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B8TwBrCIEY&list=ECA03075BAD88B909E The History of English in Ten Minutes, the Norman Conquest.
71 4.4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES3qDORQjAA&list=ECA03075BAD88B909E The History of English in Ten Minutes, English and Empire.
73 4.5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyhZ8NQOZeo The Great Vowel Shift.
74 4.6 http://www.shakespeareswords.com/thou-and-you Thou and You in Shakespeare.
77 4.7 http://apva.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=6 Jamestown Rediscovery.
77 4.8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKWk0SlPLC0&list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36&index=18#t=3m40s The Story of English: Jamestown, Roanoke.
77 4.9 http://www.londonlives.org/static/Bridewell.jsp Bridewell Prison and Hospital.
78 4.10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaP6U56eWMc&list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36 The Story of English, Virginia and New England.
79 4.11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGYegM0_zos&list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36&index=20#t=2m49s The Story of English, New England.
79 4.12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZNjxHyJAAk&list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36 The Story of English, Scots-Irish in Philadelphia.
80 4.13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZNjxHyJAAk&list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36#t=1m55s The Story of English, Scots-Irish in Appalachia.
83 4.14 www.thirteen.org/dutchny Dutch New York.
85 4.15 http://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/overview/1790.html 1790 Census.
87 4.16 [Coming soon!] Early American literature.
90 4.17 http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/british-and-american-terms British and American differences.
90 4.18 http://iteslj.org/Articles/Barton-UK-USwords.html More differences between British and American English.
90 4.19 http://www.spellingsociety.org/ The English Spelling Society.

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Colonial American English

Algeo, J. (Ed.). (2001). The Cambridge history of the English language, Vol. VI: English in North America.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Barck, O. T., & Lefler, H. T. (1958). Colonial America. New York, NY: The MacMillan

Boorstin, D. J. (1958). The Americans: The colonial experience. New York, NY: Random House.

Forgue, G. J. (1977). American English at the time of the Revolution. Revue des Langues Vivantes, 43, 253-269.

Marckwardt, A. (1958). American English. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.