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Download full textDavis, 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
Black, Paul – Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain, 1973
As the several specific applications in this paper demonstrate, multidimensional scaling provides a long-needed means for investigating and describing spatial relationships among speech varieties. It is especially applicable to the relationships among varieties of a single language (or more properly, linguistic "cline"), which, as is…
Descriptors: African Languages, American Indian Languages, Bikol, Comparative Analysis
