American Regionalisms,
Ethnic and Social Dialects--
Middle Atlantic Region
Including Broader Studies
of Eastern U.S. Dialects:
A Citation List
Compiled by
Martin Kich
English Department
Wright State University-Lake Campus
Anisman, Paul H. "Some Aspects of Code Switching in New York Puerto Rican English." Bilingual Review 2(1975): 56-85.
Ash, Sharon. The Vocalization of /l/ in Philadelphia. 1982.
Atwood, E. Bagby. A Survey of Verb Forms in the Eastern United States. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1953.
Barzini, Luigi, Jr. New York Italiana. New York: G. Agnelli, 1930.
Bronstein, Arthur J. "Let's Take Another Look at New York City Speech." American Speech 37(1962): 13-26.
Clifford, J. L. "New Light on the Origin of Eastern American Pronunciation of Unaccented Final 'A.'" American Speech 10(Oct. 1935): 173-175.
Cofer, Thomas Michael. Linguistic Variability in a Philadelphia Speech Community. 1972.
Comfort, A. W. "Some Peculiarities of Quaker Speech." American Speech 8(Feb. 1933): 12-14.
Crowningshield, G. "Dialect of Northeastern New York." American Speech 8(Apr. 1933): 43-45.
Emerson, Oliver Farrar. The Ithaca Dialect: A Study of Present English. Boston: J.S. Cushing, 1891.
Follin, M.D. "Pennsylvania Dutch." American Speech 4(Aug. 1929): 455-460.
Frank, Yakira H. The Speech of New York City. Ph.D. Dissertation, 1949. U of Michigan.
Gehman, S. "Isaac Hunsicker's Copy-Books." American Speech 9(Feb. 1934): 46-48.
Greatman, Bonnie M. A Dialect Atlas of Maryland. 1970.
Heap, Norman A. A Word List from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 18501876. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1983.
Hench, A. L. "Nominative 'Thou" and 'Thee' in Quaker English." American Speech 4(June 1929): 361-363.
Hendrickson, Robert. New Yawk Tawk: A Dictionary of New York City Expressions. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
Hubbell, Allan F. The Pronunciation of English in New York City: Consonants and Vowels. New York: King's Crown, 1950.
Kopp, Achim. The Phonology of Pennsylvania German English as Evidence of Language Maintenance and Shift. Selingsgrove, PA: Susquehanna UP, 1999.
Kuethe, J. L. "Runs, Creeks, and Branches in Maryland." American Speech 10(Dec. 1935): 256-259.
---. "'Water' Terms in Maryland." American Speech 10(Apr. 1935): 153-154.
Kurath, H. A Word Geography of the Eastern United States. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1949.
Kurath, H., et al. . Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1979.
Kurath, Hans, and Raven I. McDavid, Jr. The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1961.
Kirath, H., R.I. McDavid, Jr., and R.K. O'Cain. Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1978.
Labov, William. "Linguistic Research on the Non-Standard English of Negro Children." Problems and Practices in the New York City Schools. Ed. A. Dore. New York: 1965.
---. The Social Stratification of English in New York City. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1966.
---. A Study of the Non-Standard English of Negro and Puerto Rican Speakers in New York City. Philadelphia: U.S. Regional Survey, 1968.
Lopushansky, J. "Mining Town Terms." [Pennsylvania] American Speech 4(June 1929): 368-374.
Maxfield, E. K. "The Speech of South-Western Philadelphia." American Speech 8(Oct. 1931): 18-20.
Maxfield, S. E. "Quaker 'Thou' and 'Thee.'" American Speech 4(June 1929): 356.
McCool, Sam. How to Speak Pittsburghese. Pittsburgh, PA: Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh, 1981.
McDavid, Raven I., Jr. "The Folk Vocabulary of New York State." New York Folklore Quarterly 7(1951): 173-92.
McDavid, Raven I., et al The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.
McDavid, Raven I., Raymond K. O'Cain, and George T. Dorrill. "The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States." Special Libraries Association Geography and Map Division Bulletin 113(1978): 17-23.
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.
Read, A. W. "Bilingualism in the Middle Colonies, 1725-1775." American Speech 12(Apr. 1937): 93-99.
---. "Boucher's Linguistic Pastoral of Colonial Maryland." Dialect Notes 6(Dec. 1933): 353-360.
Reed, Carroll. Washington Words. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1956.
Reed, Carroll E., and Lester W. Seifert. A Linguistic Atlas of Pennsylvania German. Marburg/Lahn: W.J. Becker, 1954.
Salvucci, Claudio R. A Dictionary of Pennsylvanianisms. Southampton, PA: Evolution, 1997.
Struble, G. G. "English of the Pennsylvania Germans." American Speech 10(Oct. 1935): 163-172.
Thomas, Charles K. "The Place of New York City in American Linguistic Geography." Quarterly Journal of Speech 33(1947): 314-20.
---. "Pronunciation in Upstate New York." American Speech 10(Apr. 1935): 107-112.
---. "Pronunciation in Upstate New York (II)." American Speech 10(Oct. 1935): 208-212.
---. "Pronunciation in Upstate New York (III)." American Speech 10(Dec. 1935): 292-297.
---. "Pronunciation in Upstate New York (IV)." American Speech 11(Feb. 1936): 68-77.
---. "Pronunciation in Upstate New York (V)." American Speech 11(Apr. 1936): 142-144.
Tucker, R. W. "Linguistic Substrata in Pennsylvania and Elsewhere." Language 10(Mar. 1934): 1-5.
Turano, Anthony M. The Speech of Little Italy." American Mercury 26(1932): 356-59.
Warnick, Florence. Dialect of Garrett County, Maryland. 1942.
Werner, William L. "Pennsylvania German, 1927-1937." American Speech 13(Apr. 1939): 122-127.
Wetmore, Thomas H. "The Low-Central and Low-Back Vowels of the English of the Eastern United States." Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1959.
Wolfram, Walt. Sociolinguistic Aspects of Assimilation: Puerto Rican English in New York City. Arlington, VA: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1973.
Yoder, C. Disglossia within the Old Order Amish Speech Community of Lancaster. M.A. Theis, 1976. U of Pittsburgh.