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Davis, Lawrence M. – 1971
This study presents an analysis of the speech of twenty-five informants, who were born in eastern Kentucky or southern West Virginia. Six of them were interviewed in Kentucky, where they still live; the others now live in Chicago, in an area known as Uptown. The phonological data is described in terms similar to the Chomsky-Halle feature analysis…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Generative Grammar