Contributors' Column

CONTRIBUTORS' COLUMN FOR SPRING 2000
American Speech 75(1): np (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-np [PDF]  

Articles

WALT WOLFRAM and DAN BECKETT

THE ROLE OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP IN EARLIER AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH
American Speech 75(1): 3-33 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-3 [PDF] [References]  

ALEXANDER KAUTZSCH

LIBERIAN LETTERS AND VIRGINIAN NARRATIVES: NEGATION PATTERNS IN TWO NEW SOURCES OF EARLIER AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH
American Speech 75(1): 34-53 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-34 [PDF] [References]  

SUSAN M. FITZMAURICE

THE GREAT LEVELER: THE ROLE OF THE SPOKEN MEDIA IN STYLISTIC SHIFT FROM THE COLLOQUIAL TO THE CONVENTIONAL
American Speech 75(1): 54-68 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-54 [PDF] [References]  

WAYNE GLOWKA, BRENDA K. LESTER, RACHEL DUGGAN-CAPUTO, JEFF DRYE, and BARRY POPIK

AMONG THE NEW WORDS
American Speech 75(1): 69-81 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-69 [PDF]  

Response

WAYNE P. LAWRENCE

/str/ /tr/: ASSIMILATION AT A DISTANCE?
American Speech 75(1): 82-87 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-82 [PDF] [References]  

Reviews

TIMOTHY C. FRAZER

DIALECTOLOGY: ISSUES AND METHODS; Issues and Methods in Dialectology
Edited by Alan R. Thomas
Bangor, U.K.: Department of Linguistics, University of Wales, 1997 Pp. x + 312
American Speech 75(1): 88-93 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-88 [PDF] [References]  

DAVID L. GOLD

GOOD ON GERMAN, BAD ON YIDDISH; Deutsche Einflüsse auf den englischen Wortschatz in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Mit einem Beitrag zum Amerikanischen Englisch von Jürgen Eichhoff
By Anthony W. Stanforth
Reihe Germanistische Linguistik 165 Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996. Pp. 200
American Speech 75(1): 93-97 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-93 [PDF] [References]  

Miscellany

HECHUAN SUN and KELI JIANG

A STUDY OF RECENT BORROWINGS IN MANDARIN
American Speech 75(1): 98-106 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-98 [PDF] [References]  

DAVID SHULMAN

A RARE BOOK OF AMERICAN PROVERBS
American Speech 75(1): 107-111 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-107 [PDF] [References]  

RONALD R. BUTTERS

THE "REAL" MEANING OF MILLENNIUM
American Speech 75(1): 111-112 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00031283-75-1-111 [PDF]  

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