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Peer reviewedCallary, Robert E. – Language in Society, 1975
Raised, nasalized variants of /ae/ in such words as hat and back in the speech of many Illinoisans are found to correlate with the size of the community in which the speaker was raised. Generally, the higher the variants, the more urban the speaker was raised. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Language Research, North American English, Phonology
Peer reviewedTrudgill, Peter – Language in Society, 1974
It is argued that findings and techniques from both sociolinguistics and theoretical geography can aid in improving descriptions of geographical variation in language. Social and spatial characteristics of language change may thereby be better explained. (CK)
Descriptors: Atlases, Dialect Studies, English, Geographic Concepts
