Dialect Topography: Selected Bibliography

(updated March 2002)

forthcoming

Chambers, J.K. ‘Canadian Dainty’: the rise and decline of Briticisms in Canada. To appear in The Legacy of Colonial English: A Study of Transported Dialects, ed. Raymond Hickey. Cambridge University Press.

 

2002

Chambers, J.K. Studying language variation: an informal epistemology. In The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, ed. J.K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes. Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, US: Blackwell. 3-14.

Chambers, J.K. Patterns of variation including change. In The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, ed. J.K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes. Oxford, UK, and Cambridge, US: Blackwell. 349-72.

 

2001

MacKeracher, Mary. Language stability in a world of language innovation. Generals Paper. Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. 136 pages.

 

2000

Chambers, J.K. Region and language variation. English World-Wide 21: 1-31.

Easson, Gordon J. Cross-border effects of education on 'correct speech'. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 18: 11-20.

Haycock, Allan. Who's positive anymore. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 18: 28-45.

Pi, Chia-Yi Tony. Canadians telling time: a study in Dialect Topography. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 18: 80-102.

 

1999

Chambers, J.K. and Troy Heisler. Dialect Topography of Quebec City English. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 44

Chambers, J.K. Converging factors in the Englishes of North America. Variation and Linguistic Change in English, ed. Juan-Manuel Campoy-Hernandez and Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre. Cuadernos de Filología Inglesa 8: 117-27.

Easson, Gordon J. "Sounds of the Golden Horseshoe: Canadian-American differences at the Niagara border." Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 17: 99-110.

 

1998

Chambers, J.K. and Troy Heisler. Social factors in Québec City English. Papers in Sociolinguistics: NWAVE 26 à l’Univerité Laval, ed. Claude Paradis et al. Québec: Nota Bene. 19-29.

Chambers, J.K. Inferring dialect from a postal questionnaire. Journal of English Linguistics26: 222-46.

Chambers, J.K. Social embedding of changes in progress. Journal of English Linguistics 26: 3-35.

Chambers, J.K. Whither withers: last gasp of the oldest sound change in progress. Paper presented at NWAV(E) 27. Athens, Georgia.

1997

Chambers, J.K. Sociolinguistic coherence of changes in a standard dialect. A Selection of Papers from NWAVE25, ed. Charles Boberg, Miriam Meyerhoff and Stephanie Strassel. Working Papers in Linguistics 4.1. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania. 171-84.

 

1995

Chambers, J.K. The Canada-U.S. border as a vanishing isogloss: the evidence of chesterfield. Harold B. Allen memorial issue, Journal of English Linguistics23: 155-66.

1994

Chambers, J.K. An introduction to Dialect Topography. English World-Wide15: 35-53.

Chambers, J.K. Dialect Topography: an introduction. In Sociolinguistic Studies and Language Planning,ed. Catherine Philipponneau. Proceedings of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association 16 [1992]. Université de Moncton: Centre de recherche en linguistique appliquée. 213-30. [preliminary version of above article.]

Chambers, J.K. The demise of the Canadianism ‘chesterfield’. In Nonstandard Varieties of English, ed. Gunnel Melchers & Nils-Lennart Johannesson. Stockholm: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Almqvist 7 Wiksell. 1-10.