"Choice" Outstanding Academic Title 2006!
Labov, William / Ash, Sharon / Boberg, Charles
The Atlas of North American English
Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change
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"Choice" Outstanding Academic Title 2006!
The Atlas of North American English provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. The Atlas re-defines the regional dialects of American English on the basis of sound changes active in the 1990s and draws new boundaries reflecting those changes. It is based on a telephone survey of 762 local speakers, representing all the urbanized areas of North America. It has been developed by Bill Labov, one of the leading sociolinguists of the world, together with his colleagues Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg.
The Atlas consists of a printed volume accompanied by an interactive CD-ROM. The print and multimedia content is also available online.
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"ANAE is very much a standalone piece. [...] But such splendid isolation is the privilege of the giants of a discipline, and giants in the world of scholarship is definitley what the authors of this volume are. This is a landmark study, a unique reference point of dialectological scholarship for decades to come and an inspiration for generations of linguistics."
Edgar W. Schneider in: English World-Wide 1/2008
"The ANAE is a massive collection of dialect data and an unprecedented accomplishment in North American English dialectology."
Joshua Wilbur in: English Language and Linguistics 1/2007
"ANAE is a landmark study that will shape research trends for years to come."
Matthew J. Gordon in: Linguist List 17.2299
Coverage in the press:
“Talking the Tawk” The New Yorker
“Sound Decision: New Atlas Divides the US by Dialect” The Chicago Tribune and CubaNow.net
“Continental Drift” The Pennsylvania Gazette
“Is there a Rocky Mountain Accent?” New West
“North American Dialects” National Geographic
“Mayor’s Accent Deserts Boston for New York” New York Times
“It’s not the Sights, it’s the Sounds” New York Times
“Mapping North American English” Associated Press