The Language of St. Louis, Missouri: Variation in the Gateway City

by Thomas E. Murray

The Language of St. Louis presents the findings of a dialectological and sociolinguistic survey of the phonology, morphology and syntax, and lexicon of one of the leading urban centers in the midwestern United States. Thomas Murray's study is based on exhaustive data: he provides all the raw scores from all the demographic groups of informants for each linguistic feature investigated. Murray then compares these data with similar studies to allow the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820403245
• ISBN13: 9780820403243
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 272 Pages