for language nerds
May. 1st, 2006 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaJust in on my new book truck:
The Atlas of North American English, by Labov, Ash and Boberg (Mouton de Gruyter, 2006). Complete with multimedia CD!
The Atlas part, at least, is deeply satisfyingly nerdy. I mean, large maps like "The merger of /ey, e. ae/ before intervocalic /r/" (or in layman's terms, "Mary/marry/merry"), "% glide deletion of /ay/" and "The conservative treatment of back upgliding vowels in Providence." THAT nerdy.
The Atlas of North American English, by Labov, Ash and Boberg (Mouton de Gruyter, 2006). Complete with multimedia CD!
The Atlas part, at least, is deeply satisfyingly nerdy. I mean, large maps like "The merger of /ey, e. ae/ before intervocalic /r/" (or in layman's terms, "Mary/marry/merry"), "% glide deletion of /ay/" and "The conservative treatment of back upgliding vowels in Providence." THAT nerdy.