Methods in Dialectology: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference Held At the University College of North Wales, 3rd-7th August 1987

Cover......Page 1
Halftitle......Page 2
Multilingual Matters Series......Page 3
Title......Page 4
ISBN 1-85359-022-3......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Investigating Performance and Competence in Variation Studies: Adapting Techniques from Speech Pathology......Page 11
Discourse Variation and the Study of Communicative Competence......Page 21
Ma'am and Sir: Modes of Mitigation and Politeness in the Southern United States......Page 30
Some Innovative Linguistic and Procedural Solutions, Relative to Sea Island Creole, in General; Some Aspects of the Sea Island Creole Verbal Auxiliary, in Particular......Page 56
Canadian Urban Survey Methodology: A Summary of Research Techniques and Results......Page 65
Linguistic Variation and Welsh Mutations in Children......Page 77
Stylistic Variation in Nova Scotia Acadian French......Page 89
Commercial Television as a Source of Language Data......Page 99
The Construction of Rural Sociolinguistic Corpus: The Prince Edward Island Study......Page 105
Written Records of Spoken Language: How Reliable Are They?......Page 119
Diachronic Interlinguistic Contact as Reflected in the Typological Structure of Today's Acadian Fishermen's Terminology......Page 131
Verb Analysis of the Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States: A Case Study in Preliminary Analysis of a Large Data Set......Page 149
Terminology vs Jargon: Canadian hockey talk......Page 166
Slander and Defamation as a Source for Historical Dialectology......Page 175
Beyond Linguistic Divergence in Black American English: Competing Norms of Linguistic Prestige and Variation......Page 186
Uses of Dual Scaling in Social Dialectology: Multidimensional Analysis of Vowel Variation......Page 198
Computers and the American Linguistic Atlas......Page 211
The Limits of Chi Square......Page 236
The Quantitative Paradigm and the Study of Literacy: A New Initiative in Variation Studies......Page 252
Log-Linear Statistical Models: Explaining the Dynamics of Dialect Diffusion......Page 262
Research on Mural Sprayscripts (Graffiti)......Page 289
Linguistics and Dialectology: Controlling Strange Data......Page 296
Focus of Change in American Folk Speech......Page 337
Sex-Linked Differences among Atlas Informants: Irregular Verbs......Page 344
Eavesdropping and the Analysis of Everyday Verbal Exchange......Page 373
Methods in the Study of Dialect Perceptions......Page 384
Informants' Response Ratings in the Survey of English Dialects......Page 407
Accent and Identity......Page 417
A Method for Discovering Historical Language Variation......Page 439
Approximation of the Standard: A Form of Variability in Bilingual Speech......Page 453
A Microsociolinguistic Study of the Dialect of Ayr......Page 467
Ransacking Linguistic Survey Data with a Number Cruncher......Page 475
The Roots of Appalachian English......Page 491
The Dialectology of Scots: The Use of Dramatic Texts......Page 503
Locating Minority Language Informants: A Network Approach to Fieldwork......Page 521
The Computerisation and Quantification of Linguistic Data: Dialectometrical Methods......Page 535
Linguistic Atlasses of German. A Study of Computer-Aided Projects......Page 562
Caught in the Web of Change......Page 568
Creating Linguistic Databases from Machine-Readable Dialect Texts......Page 580
The Automatic Computation of Linguistic Maps with the Aid of Cluster Analysis......Page 596
Managing Phrasal Data with a Microcomputer Generated Concordance......Page 611
Aitken's Context in  Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham: A Computer-assisted Analysis of Material from the Survey of English Dialects (SED)......Page 622
The Verisimilitude of the Gullah Dialect in Francis Griswold's A Sea Island Lady......Page 636
The Historical Present as Evidence of Black/White Convergence/Divergence......Page 648
Acquisition of Phonological Variants......Page 661
Dialects as Stepping Stones to a Language......Page 677
Variation in the Plural Reflexive in Spoken English: Preliminary Evidence for Merger......Page 685
Linguistic Variation in the Non-Stratified Social Context......Page 695
Author Index......Page 712