American Regionalisms,
Ethnic and Social Dialects--
European Immigrant Groups,
Excluding Hispanics:
A Citation List
Compiled by
Martin Kich
English Department
Wright State University-Lake Campus
Barzini, Luigi, Jr. New York Italiana. New York: G. Agnelli, 1930.
Biondi, Lawrence. The Italian-American Child, His Sociolinguistic Acculturation. Washington, DC: Georgetown UP, 1975.
Boyer, H. G. "French Names in Our Geography." Romanic Review 21(July-Sep. 1930): 195-203.
Cordasco, Francesco. The Italian Community and Its Language in the U.S. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975.
Correa-Zoli, Yole. "The Language of Italian Americans." Language in the U.S.A. Eds. Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley B. Heath. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1981. 239-56.
Fishman, Joshua A. Yiddish in America: Sociolinguistic Description and Analysis. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1965.
Gehrke, W. H. "The Transition from German to the English Language in North America." North Carolina Historical Review 12(June 1935): 1-19.
Gilbert Glenn G. "French and German [in America]: A Comparative Study." Language in the U.S.A. Eds. Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley B. Heath. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1981. 257-72.
Gold, David L. "The Speech and Writing of Jews." Language in the U.S.A. Eds. Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley B. Heath. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1981. 273-92.
Haugen, Einar. The Norwegian Language in America: A Study in Bilingual Behavior. 2nd ed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1969.
Henzl, Vera M. "Slavic Languages in the New Environment." Language in the U.S.A. Eds. Charles A. Ferguson and Shirley B. Heath. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1981. 293-321.
Holter, T. E. "Twenty Idioms Illustrating the Influence of Swedish on English." American Speech 6(Feb. 1931): 216-217.
Jutronic-Tihomirovi, Dunja. Serbo-Croatian and American English in Contact. Split, Croatia: Logos, 1985.
Keel, William. "German Language 'Kaput.'" Cobblestone 22(May 2001): 26-28.
Kopp, Achim. The Phonology of Pennsylvania German English as Evidence of Language Maintenance and Shift. Selingsgrove, PA: Susquehanna UP, 1999.
Lyra, Franciszek. English and Polish in Contact. Ph.D. Dissertation, 1962. Indiana University.
Magner, Thomas F. "The Melting Pot and Language Maintenance in South Slavic Immigrant Groups." General Linguistics 16(1976): 59-67.
McDermott, J. F. "French Surnames in the Mississippi Valley." American Speech 9(Feb. 1934): 28-30.
Meyerstein, Goldie Piroch. Bilingualism among American Slovaks. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1968.
Neumann, J. H. "Notes on American Yiddish." Journal of English and German Philology 37(1938): 403-421.
"Notes on the Derivation and Meaning of the Word 'Wop.'" Notes and Queries 171(19 Dec. 1936): 446; 171(19 Dec. 1936): 462; 172(2 Jan. 1937): 12.
Oswald, Victor A., Jr. "A Note on Pennsylvania German." American Speech 13(Dec. 1938): 308-310.
Page, Eugene. "English in the Pennsylvania German Area." American Speech 12(Oct. 1937): 203-206.
Palmer, P. M. "A Note on the Influence of the New World on German Vocabulary." J.E.G.P. 35(July 1936): 401-404.
Read, A. W. "Bilingualism in the Middle Colonies, 1725-1775." American Speech 12(Apr. 1937): 93-99.
Reed, Carroll E., and Lester W. Seifert. A Linguistic Atlas of Pennsylvania German. Marburg/Lahn: W.J. Becker, 1954.
Rosenthal, M. "And Yiddish Yet: Guide to Yiddish Words, Phrases, and Attitudes in the American Language." America 3 Feb. 1968: 155-58.
Struble, G. G. "English of the Pennsylvania Germans." American Speech 10(Oct. 1935): 163-172.
Turano, Anthony M. The Speech of Little Italy." American Mercury 26(1932): 356-59.
Vaughn, Herbert H. "Italian Dialects in the United States." American Speech 2(1926): 13-18.
Von Raffler Engel, Walburga. "Investigation of Italo-American Bilinguals." Zeitschrift fur Phonetik 14(1961): 127-30.
Werner, William L. "Pennsylvania German, 1927-1937." American Speech 13(Apr. 1939): 122-127.
Wright, Muriel H. "Some Geographic Names of French Origin in Oklahoma." Chronicle of Oklahoma 7(June 1929): 188-193.