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.

 

 

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