English-American Speech Relationships: A Quantitative Approach

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-160

  Shackleton, Robert G ^a  

^a Macroeconomic Analysis Division

Author keywords

American dialect; dialectometry; English dialect; historical dialectology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047201482     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424205279017     Document Type: Article

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