Methods in Dialectology : Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference Held at the University College of North Wales, 3rd-7th August 1987

'The Sixth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology was hosted by the Department of Linguistics in the University College of North Wales, 3-7 August, 1987... This volume contains a substantial selection of the papers presented'--P. v. Cover......Page 1 Halftitle......Page 2 Multilingual Matters Series......Page 3 Title......Page 4 ISBN 1-85359-022-3......Page 5 Preface......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Investigating Performance and Competence in Variation Studies: Adapting Techniques from Speech Pathology......Page 11 Discourse Variation and the Study of Communicative Competence......Page 21 Ma'am and Sir: Modes of Mitigation and Politeness in the Southern United States......Page 30 Some Innovative Linguistic and Procedural Solutions, Relative to Sea Island Creole, in General; Some Aspects of the Sea Island Creole Verbal Auxiliary, in Particular......Page 56 Canadian Urban Survey Methodology: A Summary of Research Techniques and Results......Page 65 Linguistic Variation and Welsh Mutations in Children......Page 77 Stylistic Variation in Nova Scotia Acadian French......Page 89 Commercial Television as a Source of Language Data......Page 99 The Construction of Rural Sociolinguistic Corpus: The Prince Edward Island Study......Page 105 Written Records of Spoken Language: How Reliable Are They?......Page 119 Diachronic Interlinguistic Contact as Reflected in the Typological Structure of Today's Acadian Fishermen's Terminology......Page 131 Verb Analysis of the Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States: A Case Study in Preliminary Analysis of a Large Data Set......Page 149 Terminology vs Jargon: Canadian hockey talk......Page 166 Slander and Defamation as a Source for Historical Dialectology......Page 175 Beyond Linguistic Divergence in Black American English: Competing Norms of Linguistic Prestige and Variation......Page 186 Uses of Dual Scaling in Social Dialectology: Multidimensional Analysis of Vowel Variation......Page 198 Computers and the American Linguistic Atlas......Page 211 The Limits of Chi Square......Page 236 The Quantitative Paradigm and the Study of Literacy: A New Initiative in Variation Studies......Page 252 Log-Linear Statistical Models: Explaining the Dynamics of Dialect Diffusion......Page 262 Research on Mural Sprayscripts (Graffiti)......Page 289 Linguistics and Dialectology: Controlling Strange Data......Page 296 Focus of Change in American Folk Speech......Page 337 Sex-Linked Differences among Atlas Informants: Irregular Verbs......Page 344 Eavesdropping and the Analysis of Everyday Verbal Exchange......Page 373 Methods in the Study of Dialect Perceptions......Page 384 Informants' Response Ratings in the Survey of English Dialects......Page 407 Accent and Identity......Page 417 A Method for Discovering Historical Language Variation......Page 439 Approximation of the Standard: A Form of Variability in Bilingual Speech......Page 453 A Microsociolinguistic Study of the Dialect of Ayr......Page 467 Ransacking Linguistic Survey Data with a Number Cruncher......Page 475 The Roots of Appalachian English......Page 491 The Dialectology of Scots: The Use of Dramatic Texts......Page 503 Locating Minority Language Informants: A Network Approach to Fieldwork......Page 521 The Computerisation and Quantification of Linguistic Data: Dialectometrical Methods......Page 535 Linguistic Atlasses of German. A Study of Computer-Aided Projects......Page 562 Caught in the Web of Change......Page 568 Creating Linguistic Databases from Machine-Readable Dialect Texts......Page 580 The Automatic Computation of Linguistic Maps with the Aid of Cluster Analysis......Page 596 Managing Phrasal Data with a Microcomputer Generated Concordance......Page 611 Aitken's Context in Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham: A Computer-assisted Analysis of Material from the Survey of English Dialects (SED)......Page 622 The Verisimilitude of the Gullah Dialect in Francis Griswold's A Sea Island Lady......Page 636 The Historical Present as Evidence of Black/White Convergence/Divergence......Page 648 Acquisition of Phonological Variants......Page 661 Dialects as Stepping Stones to a Language......Page 677 Variation in the Plural Reflexive in Spoken English: Preliminary Evidence for Merger......Page 685 Linguistic Variation in the Non-Stratified Social Context......Page 695 Author Index......Page 712 This book reflects the current concerns of dialectologists, as they exploit methodological tools in the twin contexts of insights which derive from sociology via sociolinguistics, and their awareness of the interplay between synchronic variation and linguistic change.