Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese / / Barbara Johnstone, Scott Kiesling, Maeve Eberhardt, Daniel Baumgardt.
Linguists have sporadically noted peculiarities of pronunciation, lexis and morphosyntax in the speech of European Americans in the Pittsburgh area, and Pittsburgh speech, locally known as “Pittsburghese”, has been a topic of discussion in the Pittsburgh area for decades. This variety has never befo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Dialects of English [DOE] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (113 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table Of contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on notation
- Chapter 1. Geography, demography, and culture
- Chapter 2. Phonetics and phonology
- Chapter 3. Morphology and syntax
- Chapter 4. Lexis and discourse
- Chapter 5. African American English in Pittsburgh
- Chapter 6. History and trajectory
- Appendix: Annotated bibliography
- References
- Index