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This reference provides an overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the USA and Canada. The Atlas redefines the regional dialects of American English and draws new boundaries reflecting the speech of the mid 1990s. The Atlas findings show a dramatic and increasing divergence of English dialects as vowels in different regions are rotated in opposite directions by the Northern Cities Shift, the Southern Shift, and the Canadian shift, and other sweeping changes that are affecting the North American continent as a whole. The 26 chapters trace the influence of geographic and social factors by the multivariate analysis of population size, gender, age, occupation and ethnicity. An accompanying CD-ROM provides the full data base with 100,000 measurements, maps of individual vowel systems, and extended sound samples of all dialects.

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Ý... William Labov is to American dialect what Lewis and Clark are to American geography. He's the pathfinder. Labov's new work Ý... constitutes the first coast-to-coast charting of all the major dialects spoken in the continental United States and Canada. -- John Seabrook

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

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William Labov and Sharon Ash, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Charles Boberg, McGill University, Montreal, Canada..

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