Chapter 5
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Regional Variation in American English
Carver, C. M. (1987). American regional dialects: A word geography. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Cassidy, F. G., & Hall, J. H. (1985). Dictionary of American regional English. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press at Harvard University Press.
Fischer, D. H. (1989). Albion's seed: Four British folkways in America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Kurath, H. (1949). A word geography of the Eastern United States. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Kurath, H., & McDavid, R. I. Jr. (1961). The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic states. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Labov, W., Ash, S., & Boberg, C. (2006). Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, phonology, and sound change. The Hague: Walter de Gruyter.
McDavid, R. I. Jr. (1958). American English dialects. In W. N. Francis (Ed.), The structure of American English (pp. 480-543). New York, NY: The Ronald Press Co.
Metcalf, A. (2000). How we talk: American regional English today. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
Wolfram, W., & Schilling-Estes, N. (1998). American English: Dialects and variation. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Wolfram, W., & Ward, B. (Eds). (2006). American voices: How dialects differ from coast to coast. Malden, MA: Blackwell.