South Midland Pronunciation in the North Central States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8729309 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy C Frazer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-40 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/455338 |
| OpenAlex | W2582228811 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses about the determination of the northward extent of six South Midland pronunciation features in the North Central states. Evidence was taken from 124 interviews taped for the Dictionary of American Regional English: 28 in Ohio, 16 in Indiana, 46 in Illinois, 7 in Kentucky, 20 in Missouri, and 7 in southern Iowa. As a part of each interview, the informants read a short passage designed to elicit specific phonological variables. Ohio played the greatest part in the settlement of the states farther west. By the time migration from Ohio began, the railroad and the steel plow made the prairies accessible and tillable so that a wave of Ohioans in the middle 19th century inundated northern Indiana and a large area of Illinois. South Midland pronunciation is predominant in southwestern Indiana; in the Wabash, Mississippi, and Sangamon valleys of Illinois; and in all of Missouri except the Ohio settlements of the northwestern parts of the state
Archaeology · Geography · Linguistics · Pronunciation · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · History · Philosophy
Language Variety in the South Revisited
Transmission and Diffusion
More on the Third Dialect of English
The Speech Island of the American Bottoms
The Influence of the Mississippi River on Northern Dialect Boundaries
Lexical Complexities in the St. Louis Dialect Island
Presidential Address
Sound change and social structure in a rural community
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2020 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |