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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area.
Trade Review"Dialectology, the study of how and why language varies from place to place, comes brilliantly to life with this comprehensive, state-of-the-art Handbook. Grounded in history yet filled with cutting-edge methodology, research findings and personal insights from top researchers in the field, this book gives scholars and students the ideal reference manual for studying and understanding dialects in the 21st century."
Professor Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto, Canada
"It's all here - an enormously helpful and brilliantly well-planned volume, by the world's very top dialectology researcher. The Handbook has everything that needs to be known about regional variations in language, including the history of its study, its manifestations, its causes, and its consequences."
Professor Peter Trudgill, University of East Anglia, UK
"This timely volume comprises thirty six chapters written by leading exponents in the discipline, comprehensively covering in three excellent sections issues in theory, method and data. It is a fine resource for anyone working on language variation, language history, or for those who require access to bodies of language data: indispensable for researchers and students alike."
Professor Lesley Milroy, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan, USA
Table of ContentsList of Contributors viii
Introduction 1
CHARLES BOBERG, JOHN NERBONNE, AND DOMINIC WATT
Section 1: Theory (section editor: Dominic Watt) 1
Section Introduction
DOMINIC WATT
1 Dialectology, Philology, and Historical Linguistics 23
RAYMOND HICKEY
2 The Dialect Dictionary 39
JACQUES VAN KEYMEULEN
3 Linguistic Atlases 57
WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR.
4 Structural Dialectology 73
MATTHEW J. GORDON
5 Dialectology and Formal Linguistic Theory: The Blind Man and the Lame 88
FRANS HINSKENS
6 Sociodialectology 106
TORE KRISTIANSEN
7 Dialectometry 123
HANS GOEBL
8 Dialect Contact and New Dialect Formation 143
DAVID BRITAIN
9 Dialect Change in Europe—Leveling and Convergence 159
PETER AUER
10 Perceptual Dialectology 177
DENNIS R. PRESTON
11 Dialect Intelligibility 204
CHARLOTTE GOOSKENS
12 Applied Dialectology: Dialect Coaching, Dialect Reduction, and Forensic Phonetics 219
DOMINIC WATT
Section 2: Methods (section editor: John Nerbonne) 233
Section Introduction
JOHN NERBONNE
13 Dialect Sampling Methods 241
RONALD MACAULAY
14 The Dialect Questionnaire 253
CARMEN LLAMAS
15 Written Dialect Surveys 268
J.K. CHAMBERS
16 Field Interviews in Dialectology 284
GUY BAILEY
17 Corpus‐Based Approaches to Dialect Study 300
BENEDIKT SZMRECSANYI AND LIESELOTTE ANDERWALD
18 Acoustic Phonetic Dialectology 314
ERIK R. THOMAS
19 Computational Dialectology 330
WILBERT HEERINGA AND JELENA PROKIĆ
20 Dialect Maps 348
STEFAN RABANUS
21 Identifying Regional Dialects in On‐Line Social Media 368
JACOB EISENSTEIN
22 Logistic Regression Analysis of Linguistic Data 384
JOHN C. PAOLILLO
23 Statistics for Aggregate Variationist Analyses 400
JOHN NERBONNE AND MARTIJN WIELING
24 Spatial Statistics for Dialectology 415
JACK GRIEVE
Section 3: Data (section editor: Charles Boberg) 435
Section Introduction
CHARLES BOBERG
25 Dialects of British and Southern Hemisphere English 439
KEVIN WATSON
26 Dialects of North American English 450
CHARLES BOBERG
27 Dialects of German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian Languages 462
SEBASTIAN KURSCHNER
28 Dialects of French 474
DAMIEN HALL
29 Dialects of Italy 486
TULLIO TELMON
30 Dialects of Spanish and Portuguese 498
John M. Lipski
31 Dialects of the Slavic Languages 510
VLADIMIR ZHOBOV AND RONELLE ALEXANDER
32 Dialects of Arabic 523
ENAM AL‐WER AND RUDOLF DE JONG
33 Dialects in the Indo‐Aryan Landscape 535
ASHWINI DEO
34 Dialects of Chinese 547
CHAOJU TANG
35 Dialects of Japanese 559
TAKUICHIRO ONISHI
36 Dialects of Malay/Indonesian 571
ALEXANDER ADELAAR
Index 582
