Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction - Michael D. Picone and Catherine Evans Davies
Part I. Historical Approaches
Indigenous Languages
2. American Indian Languages of the Southeast: An Introduction - Pamela Munro
3. A Profile of the Caddo Language - Wallace Chafe
4. The Ofo Language of Louisiana: Recovery of Grammar and Typology - Robert L. Rankin
5. Timucua-ta: Muskogean Parallels - George Aaron Broadwell
6. Pre-Columbian Links to the Caribbean: Evidence Connecting Cusabo to Taíno - Blair A. Rudes
Earlier Englishes of the South
7. The Crucial Century for English in the American South - Michael B. Montgomery
8. Southern American English in Perspective: A Quantitative Comparison with Other English and American Dialects - Robert Shackleton
9. Some Developments in Southern American English Grammar - Jan Tillery
10. Francis Lieber’s Americanisms as an Early Source on Southern Speech - Stuart Davis
11. Earlier Southern Englishes in Black and White: Corpus-Based Approaches - Edgar W. Schneider
The African Diaspora
12. Some Early Creole-Like Data from Slave Speakers: The Island of St. Helena, 1695–1711 - Laura Wright
13. Regional Variation in Nineteenth-Century African American English - Gerard Van Herk
14. Prima Facie Evidence for the Persistence of Creole Features in AfricanAmericanEnglish and Evidence for Residual Creole - David Sutcliffe
15. The Linguistic Status of Gullah-Geechee: Divergent Phonological Processes - Thomas B. Klein
Earlier French of the Gulf South
16. French Dialects of Louisiana: A Revised Typology - Michael D. Picone
17. From French to English in Louisiana: The Prudhomme Family’s Story - Connie C. Eble
Part II. Contemporary Approaches
Across the South
18. The South in DARE Revisited - Joan Houston Hall and Luanne von Schneidemesser
19. The South: Still Different - Dennis R. Preston
20. Demography as Destiny? Population Change and the Future of Southern American English - Guy Bailey
English in the Contemporary South: Persistence and Change
21. A Century of Sound Change in Alabama - Crawford Feagin
22. Various Variation Aggregates in the LAMSAS South - John Nerbonne
23. The Persistence of Dialect Features - Sylvie Dubois and Barbara Horvath
English in the Contemporary South: Discourse Approaches
24. Southern Storytelling: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives - Catherine Evans Davies
25. The Southern and Southwestern Discourse Styles of Two Texas Women - Judith M. Bean
26. We Ain’t Done Yet: Dialect Depiction and Language Ideology - Rachel Shuttlesworth Thompson
English in the Contemporary South: African American Language Issues
27. Race, Racialism, and the Study of Language Evolution in America - Salikoko Mufwene
28. The Language of Black Women in the Smoky Mountain Region of Appalachia - Christine Mallinson and Becky Childs
29. The Sound Symbolism of Self in Innovative Naming Practices inan African American Community - Janis B. Nuckolls and Linda Beito
English in the Contemporary South: Black and White Speech and the Complexities of Relationship
30. An Experiment on Cues Used for Identification of Voices as African American or European American - Erik R. Thomas and Jeffrey Reaser
31. What We Hear and What It Expresses: The Perception and Meaning ofVowel Differences among Dialects - Valerie Fridland and Kathryn Bartlett
32. A Quantitative Acoustic Approach to /ai/ Glide-Weakening among Detroit African American and Appalachian White Southern Migrants - Bridget L. Anderson
33. The Spread of the cot/caught Merger in the Speech of Memphians: An Ethnolinguistic Marker? - Valerie Fridland
34. Phonological Variation in Louisiana ASL: An Exploratory Study - Robert Bayley and Ceil Lucas
English in the Contemporary South: Language and Identity
35. Constructing Identity: The Use of a-Prefixing and Nonstandard Past Tense in Narration to Create a Community Voice - Allison Burkette
36. Negotiating Linguistic Capital in Economic Decline: Dialect Change in Mill Villager and Farmer Speech - Lisa D. McNair
37. Lexical Features of Jewish English in the Southern United States - Cynthia Bernstein
Louisiana French
38. Beyond Cajun: Toward an Expanded View of Regional French in Louisiana - Thomas A. Klingler
39. Whither Cajun French: Language Persistence and Dialectal Upsurges - Sylvie Dubois
Latino Language Issues
40. Is “Spanglish” the Third Language of the South? Truth and Fantasy about US Spanish - John M. Lipski
41. Language Acquisition and Social Integration of Hispanics in Northeast Mississippi - Patricia Manning Lestrade
42. Puerto Rican Spanish in South Texas: Variation in Subject Personal Pronouns - Carlos Martin Vélez Salas, Belinda Treviño Schouten, Norma Cárdenas, and Robert Bayley
Language in the South and the Public Interest
43. Stylization, Aging, and Cultural Competence: Why Health Care in the South Needs Linguistics - Boyd Davis and Dena Shenk
44. Sociolinguistic Engagement in Community Perspective - Walt Wolfram
Conclusion: Perspectives, Achievements, and Remaining Challenges - Walt Wolfram
Contributors
Index