• The Linguistic Atlas of New England (LANE), edited by Hans Kurath in collaboration with Miles L. Hanley, Bernard Bloch, Guy S. Lowman, Marcus L. Hansen...
    9 KB (1,014 words) - 06:21, 26 November 2023
  • Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP) was founded in 1929 at the behest of the American Dialect Society and remains the most thorough and expansive study of...
    11 KB (1,085 words) - 15:18, 29 June 2024
  • one linguistic division of New England is into Eastern versus Western New England English, as defined in the 1939 Linguistic Atlas of New England and...
    20 KB (2,083 words) - 09:09, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atlas linguistique de la France
    produced the Linguistic Atlas of New England (1939–1940), the Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest (1973–1976) and the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States (1986–1992)...
    3 KB (267 words) - 10:04, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Julia Bloch
    Julia Bloch (category People from New Haven, Connecticut)
    staff of the Linguistic Atlas of New England (1939-1943), assisting in the preparation of its 700 dialect maps. She also contributed to the Handbook of the...
    5 KB (448 words) - 02:44, 6 April 2024
  • fourth component of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States (LAUS), following the linguistic atlases of the Linguistic Atlas of New England, the Middle and...
    8 KB (938 words) - 03:57, 26 November 2023
  • Hans Kurath (category Linguistic Society of America presidents)
    a pilot study of the New England region was initiated under his direction, eventually producing the Linguistic Atlas of New England. It soon became...
    6 KB (740 words) - 13:28, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Appalachian English
    Appalachian English (category Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code)
    chief editor of the Linguistic Atlas of New England. The Linguistic Atlas of New England was the earliest, complete linguistic atlas of a broad region...
    58 KB (7,066 words) - 11:12, 17 July 2024
  • Bernard Bloch (linguist) (category Linguistic Society of America presidents)
    Leopold, as a fieldworker for the Linguistic Atlas project led by Hans Kurath. While undertaking fieldwork on New England dialects, he also taught part-time...
    7 KB (759 words) - 18:35, 5 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for New England
    Historic USGS Maps of New England & NY Map of New England. From the 1871 Atlas of Massachusetts by Walling and Gray. Culture New England Music Archive 44°N...
    168 KB (15,472 words) - 14:10, 21 August 2024
  • dialectological studies of regions of the country. The first of these, the Linguistic Atlas of New England, was published in 1939. Later works in the same project...
    25 KB (3,204 words) - 11:38, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swamp Yankee
    Swamp Yankee (category New England)
    of honor", Providence Journal Charlestown, February 29, 2008 Excerpt from Legendary Connecticut by David Philips Hans Kurath, Linguistic Atlas of New...
    8 KB (976 words) - 07:44, 12 May 2024
  • The Atlas of North American English received the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award at the 2008 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. The Atlas defines...
    6 KB (532 words) - 12:04, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Survey of English Dialects
    Dieth of the University of Zurich about the desirability of producing a linguistic atlas of England in 1946, and a questionnaire containing 1,300 questions...
    33 KB (3,986 words) - 12:26, 7 March 2024
  • Atlas Linguarum Europae (literally Atlas of the Languages of Europe, ALE in acronym) is a linguistic atlas project launched in 1970 with the help of UNESCO...
    8 KB (841 words) - 15:17, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Language geography
    and The Linguistic Atlas of England (1978). Most geolinguistic organizations identify themselves as associations of linguists rather than of geographers...
    11 KB (1,309 words) - 16:28, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Linguistic landscape
    linguistic landscape refers to the "visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region". Linguistic landscape...
    40 KB (4,542 words) - 16:18, 25 July 2024
  • Guy Sumner Lowman Jr. (category Alumni of the University of London)
    Hansen. 1939–1941. Linguistic Atlas of New England. 2 volumes, Providence, RI: Brown University. Reprint edition, 3 volumes, New York: AMS Press, 1972...
    2 KB (245 words) - 16:13, 11 May 2024
  • (2006), The Atlas of North American English, Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter, ISBN 3-11-016746-8 Nagy, Naomi; Roberts, Juli (2004), "New England phonology" (PDF)...
    30 KB (3,204 words) - 01:55, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Little England beyond Wales
    Ieuan L., A linguistic map of Wales: 1961, in The Geographical Journal, 129, part 2, 1963, p 195 Laws, Edward. The History of Little England Beyond Wales...
    23 KB (3,124 words) - 14:11, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northern American English
    Northern American English (category Culture of the Midwestern United States)
    are geographically though not linguistically Northern: New York City and eastern coastal New England). A common lack of the cot–caught merger, meaning...
    19 KB (2,067 words) - 19:25, 19 August 2024
  • perceived as unmarked "General American" varieties. Linguistic research, however, reveals that Western New England English is not simply one single or uniform...
    16 KB (2,015 words) - 16:54, 7 April 2024
  • publishing the first linguistic atlas of the US Linguistic Atlas of New England, recipient of the Loubat Prize Jacob Neusner – Professor of Judaic Studies (1968–89)...
    58 KB (5,748 words) - 17:46, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Langues d'oïl
    Gallo-Romance languages as well as their modern-day descendants. They share many linguistic features, a prominent one being the word oïl for yes. (Oc was and still...
    28 KB (3,112 words) - 08:51, 21 August 2024
  • J. D. A. Widdowson (category Academics of the University of Sheffield)
    significant role in the Survey of English Dialects, being co-editor of the Survey's Linguistic Atlas of England (1978) and co-author of its Dictionary and Grammar...
    10 KB (1,058 words) - 22:31, 24 March 2024
  • Peter Trudgill (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
    decreased pronunciation of Rs over the course of the 1960s He was a member of the committee for England and Wales for the Atlas Linguarum Europae in the...
    9 KB (947 words) - 07:40, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Endangered language
    authorities, and the perceived prestige of certain languages. The ultimate result is the loss of linguistic diversity and cultural heritage within affected...
    50 KB (5,481 words) - 22:14, 17 August 2024
  • Loubat Prize (category 1913 establishments in New York (state))
    Colleges ... Columbia." "New York Tribune" "December 30, 1895: 13 ("Two prizes, one of not less than $1000 and the other of not less than $400, will be...
    5 KB (435 words) - 07:56, 22 February 2024
  • William Labov (category Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America)
    Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for Principles of Linguistic Change, Vol. 1.; he won the Award again in 2008 as a coauthor of the Atlas of North American...
    29 KB (3,133 words) - 21:25, 2 August 2024
  • situations by the Atlas of North American English; it shares Eastern New England's traditional non-rhoticity (or "R Dropping"). A key linguistic difference between...
    81 KB (9,039 words) - 10:08, 13 May 2024