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Focus on Canada / edited by Sandra Clarke.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Varieties of English around the world. General series ; ; v. 11.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1993Description: xi, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1556194420
  • 9781556194429
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427.971
LOC classification:
  • PE3208.8. F63 1993
Contents:
Introduction -- "Lawless and vulgar innovations": Victorian views of Canadian English -- Canadian English lexicography -- The hobgoblin of Canadian English spelling -- The planting of Anglo-Irish in Newfoundland -- The Americanization of Canadian pronunciation: A survey of palatal glide usage -- African American English in the diaspora: Evidence from old-line Nova Scotians -- A synchronic study of English spoken in Ottawa: Is Canadian English becoming more American? -- Linguistic symmetries, asymmetries, and border effects within a Canadian/American sample -- A sociolinguistic analysis of Canadian English in Saskatchewan: A look at urban versus rural speakers -- Retracting of [actual symbol not reproducible] in Vancouver English -- Comparative sociolinguistics of (aw)-fronting -- Local patterns and markers of speech in Vancouver English -- Addresses of authors -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 427.971 FOC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A272591B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 427.971 FOC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A272592B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- "Lawless and vulgar innovations": Victorian views of Canadian English -- Canadian English lexicography -- The hobgoblin of Canadian English spelling -- The planting of Anglo-Irish in Newfoundland -- The Americanization of Canadian pronunciation: A survey of palatal glide usage -- African American English in the diaspora: Evidence from old-line Nova Scotians -- A synchronic study of English spoken in Ottawa: Is Canadian English becoming more American? -- Linguistic symmetries, asymmetries, and border effects within a Canadian/American sample -- A sociolinguistic analysis of Canadian English in Saskatchewan: A look at urban versus rural speakers -- Retracting of [actual symbol not reproducible] in Vancouver English -- Comparative sociolinguistics of (aw)-fronting -- Local patterns and markers of speech in Vancouver English -- Addresses of authors -- Index.

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