American Regionalisms,
Ethnic and Social Dialects--
New England:
A Citation List
Compiled by
Martin Kich
English Department
Wright State University-Lake Campus
Atwood, Elmer Bagby. Word Index to the Linguistic Atlas of New England. Austin, TX: Chauntecleer, 1948.
Benes, Peter, and Jane Montague Benes, eds. American Speech: 1600 to the Present. Papers from the 8th Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. Boston: Boston UP, 1985.
Carlson, David B. The Common Speech of Boston. Ph.D. Dissertation, 1973. U of Massachusetts.
Ciardi, John. "Manner of Speaking: Bostonese." Aturday Review 20 Apr. 1968: 10+.
Downer, James W. Features of New England Rustic Pronunciation in James Russell Lowell's Biglow Papers. Ph.D. Dissertation, 1958. U of Michigan.
Duckert, Audrey R. "The Linguistic Atlas of New England Revisited." Publication of the American Dialect Society 39(1963): 8-15.
Ellis, Milton. "An Unconventional Footnote." English Journal 26(Nov. 1937): 753-755.
Fuller, M. C. "Word List from Danbury, Connecticut." Dialect Notes 6(Dec. 1932): 283-284.
Harris, R. S. "New England Words for the Earthworm." American Speech 8(Dec. 1933): 12-17.
Haywood, Charles Fry. Yankee Dictionary: A Compendium of Useful and Entertaining Expressions Indigenous to New England. Lynn, MA: Jackson and Phillips, 1963.
Hibbitt, G. W. "Spelling in Maine in 1802." American Speech 10(Dec. 1935): 268.
Kurath, H. "New England Words for the Seesaw." American Speech 8(Apr. 1933): 14-18.
Kurath, H., et al. Handbook of the Linguistic Geography of New England. 2nd ed, 1939. New York: AMS, 1973.
--. Linguistic Atlas of New England. 3vols. 1939-1943. New York: AMS, 1972.
Lewis, Gerald E. How to Talk Yankee. Thorndike, ME: Thorndike, 1986.
Lindblad, Karl Erik. Noah Webster's Pronunciation and Modern New England Speech, a Comparison. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1954.
Martin, Stanley. "Indian Derivations in Connecticut Place-Names." New England Quarterly 12(June 1939): 364-369.
Miller, Mary R. Bilingualism in Northern New England. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1971.
Morison, S. E. "Notes from Maine." American Speech 4(June 1929): 356.
Orbeck, Anders. Early New England Pronunciation as Reflected in Some Seventeenth Century Town Records of Eastern Massachusetts. Snn Arbor, MI: G. Wahr, 1927.
Parslow, Robert L. The Pronunciation of English in Boston, Massachusetts: Vowels and Consonants. Ph.D. Dissertation, 1967. U of Michigan.
Penzl, Herbert. "New England Terms for Poached Eggs." American Speech 9(Apr. 1934): 90-96.
---. "Relics with 'Broad A' in New England Speech." American Speech 13(Feb. 1938): 45-49.
---. "The Vowel in rather in New England." PMLA 53(Dec. 1938): 1186-1192.
Porter, Ruth Schell. A Dialect Study in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Tuscaloosa, AL: American Dialect Society, 1965.
Read, A. W. "Nantucketisms of 1848." American Speech 10(Feb. 1935): 38-42.
---. "Two New England Lists of 1848." Dialect Notes 6(July 1935): 452-454.
Simpson, Claude M., Jr. "Early Rhode Island Pronunciation." Dialect Notes July 1937: 579-582.
Thurston, Margaret Haskell. The Eastern Coastal Maine Dialect. 1983.
Wright, Harry Arden. "Some Vagaries in Connecticut Valley Indian Place-Names." New England Quarterly 12(Sep. 1939): 535-544.