Dialect Emergence in Waumandee English

By: David N. Ehrat, Don Heinrich Tolzmann (Editor)

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Paperback | 4 March 2008

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216 Pages

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This book examines how a new dialect emerges. It is based on empirical research carried out in Waumandee, Wisconsin, a small community set in a linguistically uncharted territory in North America. Waumandee English is influenced by the native languages of settlers who arrived from different parts of Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Austria and Ireland. Traditional dialectology augmented by sociolinguistic and psychological parameters enables the reader to follow the path of current dialect emergence in Waumandee English.

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"(...) Ehrat presents an in-depth and meticulously detailed description of individual consonant and vowel features as well as different processes of sound change at various stages of development. [...] this monograph is a strong contribution to the field of dialectology and American English linguistics." (Lorie A. Vanchena, Yearbook of German-American Studies)

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