A Dictionary of Varieties of English

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A Dictionary of Varieties of English presents a comprehensive listing of the distinctive dialects and forms of English spoken throughout the contemporary world.

Provides an invaluable introduction and guide to current research trends in the field
Includes definitions both for the varieties of English and regions they feature, and for terms and concepts derived from a linguistic analysis of these varieties
Explores important research issues including the transportation of dialects of English, the rise of ‘New Englishes’, sociolinguistic investigations of various English-speaking locales, and the study of language contact and change.
Reflects our increased awareness of global forms of English, and the advances made in the study of varieties of the language in recent decades
Creates an invaluable, informative resource for students and scholars alike, spanning the rich and diverse linguistic varieties of the most widely accepted language of international communication

A Dictionary of Varieties of English 4
Copyright 7
Content 8
Preface 10
Maps 12
Introduction: Research Trends in Variety Studies 28
How to Use This Book 35
A 36
- /æ/ tensing 36
- /æ/ before voiceless fricatives 36
- ablaut 37
- /ɒ/ before voiceless fricatives 37
- Aboriginal Australian English 37
- /æ/ tensing, pre-liquid 37
- AAVE 37

A Dictionary of Varieties of English 4
Copyright 7
Content 8
Preface 10
Maps 12
Introduction: Research Trends in Variety Studies 28
How to Use This Book 35
A 36
- /æ/ tensing 36
- /æ/ before voiceless fricatives 36
- ablaut 37
- /ɒ/ before voiceless fricatives 37
- Aboriginal Australian English 37
- /æ/ tensing, pre-liquid 37
- AAVE 37
- Aboriginal English 37
- A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue 37
- absolute construction 38
- academy 38
- acceptability judgement 39
- accommodation 39
- accent 39
- acceptable 39
- accent bar 39
- accidence 39
- Acadia 39
- acquisition 40
- acronym 40
- acoustic phonetics 40
- acquisition, manner of 40
- active 40
- acculturation model 40
- acquired 40
- acrolect 40
- Acts of Union 40
- accusative 40
- address system 41
- adjectives, comparison of 41
- actuation 41
- adjective 41
- adjunct 41
- adaptation 41
- adjectives, comparative and superlative forms of 41
- adverb 42
- adverbs, order of 42
- adopters, early and late 42
- adverbs, inchoative and counterfactual 42
- adverbs, unmarked 42
- advanced pronunciation 42
- adverbs, intensifying 42
- affix 42
- adolescent speech 42
- Africa, English in 43
- affricate 43
- Africa, South 43
- Africa, East 43
- Africa, Southern 43
- Africa, The Scramble for 44
- Africa, West 44
- African American English 44
- African American English, diaspora varieties of 46
- African American English, sources of 46
- African American English, terms for 46
- African American English, theories of origin 47
- Afrikaans English 47
- African languages 47
- Afrikaans 47
- Afro-Seminole 48
- after perfective 48
- Afrogenesis 48
- Age of Discovery, The 48
- age-grading 49
- ain’t 49
- agglutinative 49
- /ai/ and /au/, realization of 49
- Aitken’s Law 50
- alliteration 50
- allophones 50
- Aku 50
- allomorph 50
- alphabet 50
- Aitken, A. J. (1921–1998) 50
- Alford, Henry (1810–1871) 50
- allophone 50
- amelioration 51
- alphabet, pronunciation of 51
- alternatives, lexical 51
- alveolo-palatal 51
- American Colonization Society 51
- alphabetism 51
- alveolar 51
- ambiguous 51
- Alternative Histories of English 51
- alveolar realization of velar nasals 51
- American English 52
- American Dialect Society 52
- American English, influence on English in England 55
- American English, Southern 55
- American English, spelling 56
- American Heritage Dictionary 56
- American Language, The 57
- American Sign Language 57
- analytic 57
- American Revolution 57
- American Speech 57
- analytical comparison 57
- American Samoa 57
- analogical change 57
- Anglo-Saxon 58
- anaphora 58
- anglocentric 58
- anglophone 58
- Anglo-Saxonism 58
- Anglo- 58
- Anglo-Indians 58
- Angloromani 58
- Anglo-Celtic 58
- Anglo-Irish 58
- Antigua and Barbuda 59
- Anguilla 59
- anthropology, linguistic 59
- Antilles 59
- animate 59
- anti-deletion 59
- angloversal 59
- anthropology, cultural 59
- apocope 60
- antonym 60
- apex 60
- Appalachian English 60
- anymore, positive 60
- aphasia 60
- antiquarianism 60
- Aotearoa 60
- applied linguistics 61
- archaism 61
- approximant 61
- Archaizers 61
- apparent time 61
- a -prefixing 61
- areal linguistics 62
- article, reduction of definite 62
- articulatory phonetics 62
- argot 62
- article, use of 62
- articulatory setting 62
- article 62
- articulation 62
- as / at 63
- ASK-metathesis 63
- Asian Englishes 63
- aspect 63
- Asian languages 63
- Atlantic creoles 65
- attributive 65
- aspirated 65
- Atlas of North American English 65
- auditory phonetics 65
- assimilation 65
- Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures 65
- aspect, historical spread of 65
- Australian Aboriginal Kriol 66
- augmentatives 66
- Australian English 66
- Austin, John Langshaw 66
- AU-fronting 66
- Australian National Corpus 68
- Australian National Dictionary 68
- Australian languages 68
- auxiliary contraction 69
- Authorized Version of the Bible 69
- auxiliary verb 69
- auxiliary, done as 69
- Avalon Peninsula 69
- Austronesian languages 69
B 70
- back vowel 70
- back formation 70
- back-channelling 70
- Babu English 70
- back slang 70
- baby talk theory 70
- ‘bad data’ 71
- Bajan 71
- Bahamas, The 71
- Bangladesh 71
- background language(s) 71
- Bailey, Nathaniel (?–1742) 71
- Bank of English 72
- Barnes, William (1801–1886) 72
- Bantu languages 72
- Basic English 72
- Barbados 72
- basilect 72
- Bay Islands Creole 73
- Belfast English 73
- basilect, mesolect, acrolect 73
- Bazaar Malay 73
- Belize 73
- BATH lexical set 73
- BBC English 73
- Berliner Lautarchiv 73
- Bhutan 74
- Bermuda 74
- bias factor 74
- Bhojpuri 74
- Bible translations 74
- binary feature 75
- Bickerton, Derek (1926–) 75
- BILE-BOIL distinction 75
- binomials 75
- bidialectism 75
- bilingualism 75
- biogram program hypothesis 75
- bilabial 75
- Black South African English 76
- Bioko 76
- Black Irish 76
- Bislama 76
- Black Nova Scotians 76
- Black English (Vernacular) 76
- borrow 77
- blend 77
- Boontling 77
- Boston Brahmin accent 77
- blade 77
- blog 77
- Borders, Scottish 77
- Boston English 77
- Blarney 77
- Bonin Islands 77
- breathy voice 78
- Botswana 78
- bracket 78
- Bristol 78
- bound 78
- breaking 78
- Bowdler, Thomas (1754–1825) 78
- British Black English 79
- British Isles 79
- British Empire 79
- British National Corpus 79
- Britain 79
- British English 79
- British Sign Language 80
- broken English 80
- Buchanan, James 80
- broad transcription 80
- Brown Corpus 80
- Bungi 80
- brogue 80
- Brummie 80
- Burgher 81
- but in the sense of only 81
- burr 81
- Butler English 81
- busy 81
C 82
- Cajun English 82
- Cabot, John / Giovanni Cabote (c .1450–1499) 82
- California Vowel Shift 82
- cafeteria principle 82
- Cameroon 83
- Canada 83
- calques 83
- Canadian Shift 84
- Canadian Raising 84
- Cape Breton 85
- cardinal vowels 85
- Cape Flats English 85
- cant 85
- capitalization 85
- caretaker speech 86
- Caribbean 86
- Caribbean, division into East and West 87
- Caribbean creoles 87
- Cartier, Jacques (1491–1557) 88
- CATCH -raising 88
- Caucasian 88
- cascade model 88
- categorical rule 88
- Cawdrey, Robert 88
- catastrophic theory 88
- category 88
- Cayman Islands 89
- Central Belt 89
- ceceo, seseo, distinción 89
- central vowel 89
- Celtic regions, the 89
- centralized 89
- CHAIR-CHEER merger 90
- change, incipient 90
- centring diphthong 90
- Chancery Standard 90
- change, language 90
- chain shift 90
- change 90
- change, present-day grammatical 90
- change, present-day lexical 91
- change from above, below 92
- Channel Islands 92
- change, present-day phonetic 92
- Charleston 92
- chat 93
- chat, online 93

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Raymond Hickey: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

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