Contributors' Column

CONTRIBUTORS' COLUMN
American Speech 76(4): np (2001); DOI:10.1215/00031283-76-4-np [PDF]  

Articles

CEIL LUCAS, ROBERT BAYLEY, RUTH REED, and ALYSSA WULF

LEXICAL VARIATION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE SIGNING
American Speech 76(4): 339-360 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00031283-76-4-339 [PDF] [References]  

BENJAMIN TORBERT

TRACING NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE HISTORY THROUGH CONSONANT CLUSTER REDUCTION: THE CASE OF LUMBEE ENGLISH
American Speech 76(4): 361-387 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00031283-76-4-361 [PDF] [References]  

EDGAR W. SCHNEIDER and MICHAEL B. MONTGOMERY

ON THE TRAIL OF EARLY NONSTANDARD GRAMMAR: AN ELECTRONIC CORPUS OF SOUTHERN U.S. ANTEBELLUM OVERSEERS' LETTERS
American Speech 76(4): 388-410 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00031283-76-4-388 [PDF] [References]  

WAYNE GLOWKA, MEGAN MELANÇON, LISA GANDY, ALLISON BLOUNT, and AMY BUFFORD

AMONG THE NEW WORDS
American Speech 76(4): 411-423 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00031283-76-4-411 [PDF]  

Reviews

ROBERT L. TRAMMELL

MORE THAN JUST A DICTIONARY; Dictionary of Louisiana Creole
Edited by Albert Valdman, Thomas A. Klinger, Margaret M. Marshall, and Kevin J. Rottet Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. 656.
American Speech 76(4): 424-427 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00031283-76-4-424 [PDF]  

JOHN ALGEO

THE AWFUL ALPHABET; The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image
By Leonard Shlain
New York: Viking, 1998. Pp. xiv + 464.
American Speech 76(4): 427-429 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00031283-76-4-427 [PDF]  

ROBERT S. WACHAL

WATCHFUL WACHAL; Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue Is Rewarded, Crimes against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice Is Done
By Barbara Wallraff
New York: Harcourt, 2000. Pp. viii + 368.
American Speech 76(4): 430-433 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00031283-76-4-430 [PDF] [References]  

Miscellany

PATRICK HUBER and KATHLEEN DROWNE

REDNECK: A NEW DISCOVERY
American Speech 76(4): 434-437 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00031283-76-4-434 [PDF] [References]  

ALAN DUNDES

AN UPLIFTING ORIGIN OF 86
American Speech 76(4): 437-440 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00031283-76-4-437 [PDF] [References]  

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