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Heiser, Mary Margaret – Linguistics, 1972
Shortened version of this paper was presented in New York, N.Y., March 14, 1970, at the Fifteenth Annual National Conference on Linguistics sponsored by The International Linguistic Association. (RS)
Descriptors: Atlases, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects
Schenker, Walter – Deutsche Sprache, 1973
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, German

Lipski, John M. – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Revised version of a paper read at the Canadian Linguistic Association, Montreal, Quebec, May 1972. (RS)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diagrams, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language)

Hammarstrom, Goran – Language Sciences, 1975
This paper suggests an explicit way of integrating sociolectal and dialectal facts in the overall description of a language. Phonetic, morphological, syntactic and semantic units of the whole language are defined. (CK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Linguistic Theory
SOLA, DONALD F.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THIS DETAILED, LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS DOES NOT CONTRAST ENGLISH AND QUECHUA PHONOLOGY AND GRAMMAR BUT RATHER ATTEMPTS TO DESCRIBE THE DISTRIBUTIONAL AND SEMANTIC CATEGORIES PARTICULAR TO CUZCO QUECHUA IN A THOROUGH AND SCIENTIFIC MANNER. IT CAN BE USED IN THE FIELD TO IDENTIFY UNFAMILIAR UTTERANCES OR TO HELP UNDERSTAND HOW NATIVE SPEAKERS…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Grammar, Languages

LASTRA, YOLANDA; SOLA, DONALD F. – 1964
THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO DESCRIBE THE MAIN STRUCTURAL ASPECTS OF COCHABAMBA QUECHUA. IT IS INTENDED TO SERVE AS A REFERENCE BOOK FOR LINGUISTS AND THOSE LEARNING THIS DIALECT. THE INTRODUCTION DISCUSSES THE STUDY'S PURPOSE, INFORMANTS, METHODS, TERMINOLOGY, AND NOTATION. THE AUTHORS THEN EXAMINE IN SEPARATE CHAPTERS PHONOLOGY,…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Grammar, Languages
Gowda, K. Kushalappa – 1970
This monograph on Gowda Kannada presents a description of the phonology, morphophonemics, nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, interjections, noun derivations, verbs, clitics, and verb stem alternants. The author, in the Introduction and throughout the work, has pointed out some of the important differences between this dialect of Kannada and…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Kannada
Bradley, C. Henry – 1970
The main purpose of this study is to fill a gap in the literature on the Mixtec language of Mexico by describing, systematically and completely, the grammar of the Jicaltepec dialect of the language. A subsidiary aim is that of collecting in one place and within a unified theoretical framework, phonological information about Mixtec that had…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Morphology (Languages)
Ferlus, Michel – Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Insulindien, 1972
Descriptors: Atlases, Austro Asiatic Languages, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics

Woon, Wee-Lee – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1979
Describes differences between colloquial and literary pronunciation of Hainan. (AM)
Descriptors: Chinese, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Styles

English Journal, 1988
Presents personal opinions of high school teachers that reflect the linguistic diversity, literary treasures, and regional uniqueness of North America. (NH)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Language Typology, Language Usage

Hornung, Maria – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Geographic Regions

Penzl, Herbert – Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, 1973
Paper delivered in a slightly different English version, Graphic and Phonemic Coalescence in Old High German'' at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, Chicago, Illinois, December 1967; present article is part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, German
Valdman, Albert – Louisiana Review, 1974
Structional analysis of the spoken French in four regions of North America. (Text is in French.) (PMP)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, French, Nonstandard Dialects

Carenko, E. I. – Linguistics, 1975
Discusses the laryngealized (aspirated and glottalized) obstruent consonants in the phonological systems of the Quechua dialects of the Cuzco-Puno region and Bolivia. (RM)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies