In contrast to many other levels of language, there is as yet no comprehensive areal-linguistic description of the segmental phonological properties of the lang

Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this projec

Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whils

The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews esse

The Atlas of North American English provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. The Atlas re-