Garber, Aubrey.
1976. Mountain-ese: basic grammar for Appalachia. Radford, VA: Commonwealth.
105 pp. Popular dictionary of Southern Appalachian speech, with illustrative
citation for each entry.
Griffin, Hazel.
1967. Some folk expressions from northeastern North Carolina. North Carolina
Folklore 15.56-57. Layman's collection of localisms, all well known.
Guthrie, Charles
S. 1966. Corn: the mainstay of the Cumberland Valley. Kentucky Folklore
Record 13.87-91. Includes comments on localisms.
Guthrie,
Charles S. 1968. Tobacco: cash crop of the Cumberland Valley. Kentucky
Folklore Record 14.38-43. Tobacco lexicon used in Central Kentucky.
Hall,
Joseph S. 1972. Sayings from Old Smoky. Asheville, NC: Cataloochee. 149
pp. Comprehensive dictionary (pp. 36-144) based on personal interviews
and observations, as well as on other printed sources. Reviews:L.
Montell. 1972. Kentucky Folklore Record 18.87;C. Williams. 1973. Appalachian
Journal 1.61.
Hall,
Joseph S. 1978. Glossary. Yarns and tales from the Great Smokies,
pp. 74-76. Asheville, NC: Cataloochee. 54 items. Review:K. B. Harder. 1980.
Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 46.144-45.
Harper,
Francis. 1941. The way we see it. North Georgia Review 6.129-30. Glossary
of twenty-nine expressions mainly from Southern Appalachian area.
Heap,
Norman A. 1959. A vocabulary of burley tobacco growing in Fayette County,
Kentucky. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University thesis. [North Central
Kentucky]. Compiles list of 275 lexical items used by burley tobacco growers
to show usefulness of topical investigation of vocabulary of local
industry.
Heap,
Norman A. 1966. A burley tobacco word list from Lexington, Kentucky. Publication
of the American Dialect Society 45.1-27. [North Central Kentucky]. Revision
of preceding item.
Helton,
William W. 1986. In a manner of speaking. Around home in Unicoi county,
373-81. Johnson City, TN: Overmountain Press.
Hench,
Atcheson L. 1939. To come to fetch fire. Journal of American Folklore 53.123-24.
Says the Chaucerian idiom, meaning "to come for a moment and then leave,"
is still used in Virginia and elsewhere in the South.
Howard,
Martha C. 1981. Fifty years later and less: dialect loss in West Virginia.
Abstract in Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 13.3.7. Claims degree
of lexical dialect loss in state since Woofter's study can be correlated
with degree of speakers' education and with educational level of school
teachers in local area.
Hurst,
Sharon Elaine. 1982. Appalachian words. Smokies heritage book I, 98-99.
Gatlinburg, TN: Crescent.
Jones,
Loyal and Jim Wayne Miller. 1992. Glossary of mountain speech. Southern
mountain speech, 63-120. Berea, KY: Berea College Press.
Kaimen,
Audrey A. 1965. The Southern fiddling convention--a study: part I music
and musicians. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 31.7-16. [North Carolina.
Virginia]. Includes comments on vocabulary.
Kelly,
Claire. 1961. Comment on "Brief lexical notes."Kentucky Folklore Record
7.77-78. [Kentucky]. Comments on eight items in Woodbridge's article (Kentucky
Folklore Record 5.107-10 (1959).
Kephart,
Horace. 1917. A word-list from the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Dialect Notes 4.407-19. Extensive list, most items discussed in Kephart's
Our
Southern Highlanders.
Krumpelmann,
John T. 1939. West Virginia peculiarities. American Speech 14.155-56.
A dozen lexical items.
Kurath,
Hans. 1949. A word geography of the Eastern United States. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press. xii + 252 pp. Based on Linguistic Atlas of New England
and Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States, this atlas
shows geographical, but not social, distribution of traditional
vocabulary from Maine to South Carolina on 163 maps and subdivides
Eastern states into eighteen primary dialect areas based on distinctive
vocabulary patterns. First study of dialect geography of Atlantic
states using Linguistic Atlas records; first conclusive demonstration
of three principal Eastern dialect areas--Northern, Midland, and Southern--and
their subareas. Reprinted in 1966. Reviews:E. B. Atwood. 1950. Word
6.194-97;E. B. Atwood. 1950. Geographical Review 40.510-12;C. Bonfante.
1951. American Anthropologist 53.103-05;A. L. Davis. 1950. Journal of English
and Germanic Philology 49.431-32;E. Dieth. 1953. English Studies 34.122-26;N.
E. Eliason. 1951. Modern Language Notes 66.487-89;H. M. Flasdieck.
1951. Anglia 70.335-36;L. Florez. 1952. Thesaurus 8.217-18;W. C. Greet.
1950. New York Times, p. 22 (Jan. 22);L. Grootaaers. 1954. Leuvense Bijdragen
44.17;S. B. Liljegren. 1952-53. Studia Neophilogica 25.193;R. I. McDavid,
Jr. 1950. New York History 31.442-44;J. B. McMillan. 1951. Language 27.423-29;R.
J. Menner. 1950. American Speech 15.122-26; F. Mosse. 1951. Bulletin de
la Societee Linguistique de Paris 46.154-55; V. Pisane. 1952. Paideia 7.317-18;C.
E. Reed. 1951. Modern Language Quarterly 12.245-47;H. L. Smith, Jr. 1951.
Studies in Linguis tics 9.7-12;A. Sommerfelt. 1954. Norsk Tidsskrift for
Sprogvidenskap 17.564-66;C. K. Thomas. 1950. Quarterly Journal of Speech
36.262;J. N. Tidwell. 1954. Journal of American Folklore 67.222-23;H. Whitehall.
1950. Yale Review n.s. 39.556-58;R. M. Wilson. 1951. Year's Work in English
Studies 30.37.
Laughlin,
Hugh C. 1944. A word-list from Buncombe County, North Carolina. Publication
of the American Dialect Society 2.24-27. [Western North Carolina]. Glossary
of items common to Buncombe County, North Carolina, and Logan County,
Ohio.
Ledford,
Ted Roland. 1975-76. Folk vocabulary of Western North Carolina: some recent
changes. Appalachian Journal 3.279-84. [100 natives, ages 18-20, Western
North Carolina]. Investigates extent to which folk vocabulary is still
known in four areas of terminology: the house, the farm, common animals,
and food; finds "a striking loss of some local terms."
Lyman,
Dean B. 1936. Idioms in West Virginia. American Speech 11.63. Six miscellaneous
items.
McDavid,
Raven I., Jr. and Virginia G. McDavid. 1973. The folk vocabulary of Eastern
Kentucky. Lexicography and dialect geography: festgabe for Hans Kurath,
ed. by Harald Scholler and John Reidy, pp. 147-64. Wiesbaden: Franz
Steiner Verlag. Same as Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik heft
9. 13 maps. Analyzes distribution of Midland and Southern vocabulary
in East Kentucky, using data from Linguistic Atlas of the North Central
States records made in 1950s.
McDonald,
Richard R., and Walburga von Raffler-Engel. 1975. A semantic analysis of
some religious terms of a snake-handling sect in Appalachia. Views on language,
ed. by Reza Ordoubadian and Walburga von Raffler-Engel, pp. 182- 91. Murfreesboro:
Middle Tennessee State University. Based on research in four Pentecostal
churches in Tennessee, studies terminology used in the Pentecostal
experience called "anointing."
Matthias,
Virginia P. 1946. Folk speech of Pine Mountain, Kentucky. American
Speech 21.188-92. [Southeast Kentucky]. Glossary, with explanatory notes,
of twenty-seven terms observed in two summers in the KY mountains.
Matthias,
Virginia P. 1952. A wordcatcher asks your help. Mountain Life and
Work 28.3.23-24. Appeals for help in recording Southern Appalachian
speech.
Maurer,
David W. 1949. The argot of the moonshiner. American Speech 24.3- 13. Glossary
of a hundred items, prefaced by comments on manufacture and prevalence
of illegal whisky in Kentucky.
Maurer,
David W. 1974. Kentucky moonshine. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
The argot of the craft, pp. 105-11; Glossary, pp. 113-27. Reviews:Anonymous.
1975. Journal of Southern History 41.284-85;C. S. Guthrie. 1975. Kentucky
Folklore Record 21.2.63-64;L. Pederson. 1979. American Speech 54.52-55.
Maurer,
David W. 1981. Language in the underworld. Lexington: University Press
of Kentucky. 417 pp. Includes scattered Southern material, including chapter
on Kentucky moonshiner argot (pp. 370-80) revised and expanded from preceding
item. Reviews:A. Burgess. 1982. Times Literary Supplement, Jan.
22, p. 74;J. R. Gaskin. 1984. Sewanee Review 92.114-21;J. Hall. 1983. South
Atlantic Quarterly 82.341-42;K. B. Harder. 1982. American Speech 58.288;
W. K. McNeil. 1982. Mid-America Folklore 10;R. I. McDavid, Jr. 1983. American
Studies 24.1,115;J. B. McMillan. 1982. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics
Review 6.138-39;G. Nunberg. 1982. New York Times Book Review, May
2, p. 9;L. Pederson. 1983. Modern Philology 81.105-07;M. Salovesh. 1982.
American Anthropologist 84.456-57;L. E. Seits. 1983. Names 31.211-13.
Miller,
Jim Wayne. 1969. The vocabulary and methods of raising burley tobacco in
Western North Carolina. North Carolina Folklore 17.1.27-38. Explains
terminology used in production and marketing of tobacco.
Miller,
Jim Wayne. 1979. An interview with Jim Wayne Miller. Appalachian Journal
6.207-25. P. 214, discusses treatment of taboo word bull and explains
substitutes for it in Southern Appalachia.
Mockler,
William E. 1940. Localisms. American Speech 15.83. Nine miscellaneous
items from mountains of West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Montell,
William Lynwood. 1975. Glossary. Ghosts along the Cumberland: death lore
in the Kentucky foothills, pp. 217-20. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press. [South Central Kentucky]. Forty-six items.
Montell,
William Lynwood. 1983. Glossary. Don't go up Kettle Creek: verbal legacy
in the upper Cumberlands, pp. 197-201. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press. [South Central Kentucky]. Reviews:R. E. Corlew. 1984. Journal
of Southern History 50.143-44;G. B. McKinney. 1984. Appalachian Journal
11.255.59;J. H. Speer. 1984. Journal of American Folklore 97.480-81.
Mountain
English: collection of mountain expressions reproduced for your enlightenment.
n.d. Asheville, NC: Tarmac Audio Visual Company. 10 pp. Popular glossary
of mountain terms in modified spelling with definitions; most items identical
to Weals item below.
Mountain
vocabulary. 1932. Mountain Missionary, January.
Mountain
words. 1982. Smokies heritage book I, 66-67. Gatlinburg, TN: Crescent.
Mull,
J. Alexander, and Gordon Boger. 1983. Sayin's and meanin's. Recollections
of the Catawba Valley, pp. 63-64. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium.
Thirty-seven North Carolina terms that author says are misunderstood in
the North.
Neal,
Marvin H. 1957. The word-book of a backwoodsman. Ceres, VA: Backwoods Press.
xi + 49 pp.
Newton,
Mary C. 1958. A comparative study of the dialect vocabulary of East
Tennessee and Western North Carolina using selected words: a report of
a special study. Maryville, TN: Maryville College. [99 speakers, most
natives, East Tennessee, Western North Carolina]. Based on local questionnaires
and on data from Linguistic Atlas, finds predominant Midland usage
but that education had little correlation with use and recognition of vocabulary;
also finds some differences between North Carolina and Tennessee.
Nixon,
Phyllis J. 1946. A glossary of Virginia words. Publication of the American
Dialect Society 5.3-43. Preface by Hans Kurath. Based on 138 Virginia Linguistic
Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States field records; notes geographical
and social distribution of terms; gives thorough picture of Virginia
usage and greatly supplements B. W. Green. Reviews:R. I. McDavid,
Jr. 1947. Studies in Linguistics 5.21-24;B. J. Whiting. 1946. Publication
of the American Dialect Society 6.44-46. Comments and additions by
T. A. Kirby, W. L. McAtee, W. M. Miller, R. V. Mills, F. W. Palmer,
H. H. Petit. 1947. Publication of the American Dialect Society 8.11-38.
North
Carolina word list. 1918. Dialect Notes 5.18-20.
North
Carolina Department of Commerce. n.d. A dictionary of the Queen's English.
Raleigh, North Carolina. 24 pp. [North Carolina]. Booklet for tourists
with three short glossaries stressing archaic expressions still heard in
state, where English spoken is "not prose but metaphor."
O'Cain,
Raymond K., and John B. Hopkins. 1977. The southern mountain vocabulary
in the low country of South Carolina and Georgia. An Appalachian symposium:
essays written in honor of Cratis D. Williams, pp. 215-23. Boone,
NC: Appalachian State University. Detailed study of "the geographical
distribution of the ten vocabulary items that were ... most frequently
cited in early word lists of mountain speech" and speculates whether their
occurrence in the low country is due to common sources in England or to
diffusion in colonial times.
Olmstead,
George C. 1934. Testimonies. American Speech 9.236. Reports goober grabber
in Chattanooga for "an Alabamian" and hairydick, "maverick,"
and Indian River chicken.
Pederson,
Lee A. 1975. Sourmilk. American Speech 50.49. [Tennessee]. Reports term
for clabber having primary-secondary stress pattern.
Pederson,
Lee A. 1977. The dugout dairy. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 43.88-89.
[East Tennessee]. Notes several senses of word dairy, including
reference to room in dugout area.
Pederson,
Lee A. 1981. Hey, Lucy. American Speech 56.63. [Jacksboro, Tennessee].
Points out difficulty of ordering senses in Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf
States legendry, dictionary component of the atlas.
Pendleton,
Paul E. 1930. How the "wood hicks" speak. Dialect Notes 6.86-89. Words
and phrases from Buckhannon, West Virginia.
Petit,
Herbert H. 1947. Terms in a word-list from Virginia and North Carolina
(Publication of the American Dialect Society 6) common in the Blue Grass
region of Kentucky. Publication of the American Dialect Society 8.21- 23.
Confirmation of findings of Woodard (see item below) by Kentucky native.
Pollard,
Mary O. 1915. Terms from the Tennessee mountains. Dialect Notes 4.242-43.
Twenty-four items from Gatlinburg; brief note on phonological and grammatical
tendencies.
Preston,
Dennis R. 1969. Bituminous coal mining vocabulary of the eastern United
States: a pilot study in the collecting of geographically distributed occupational
vocabulary. Madison: University of Wisconsin dissertation. Abstract
in Dissertation Abstracts International 39.3929-30A. Reprinted in 1973
as Bituminous coalmining vocabulary of the Eastern
United States. Publication of the American Dialect Society 59. 128 pp.
Lexicon of 489 terms used by bituminous coal miners in ten states
in Midland and Midwest regions. Finds northern coal-mining areas preserve
more British terms while southern areas have more native American ones.
Review:K. Hameyer. 1980. Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik 47.108-11.
Roberts,
Leonard. 1962. Additional notes on Archer Taylor's On Troublesome Creek.
Kentucky Folklore Record 8.142-44. [Kentucky]. Explains six terms cited
by Woodbridge that come from James Still's fiction, including bunty
bird and corn capping.
Rushing,
Nellie Georgia. 1929. A word study of Mary Noailles Murfree's stories of
the Tennessee mountains. Chicago: University of Chicago thesis. Analyzes
and compiles regional vocabulary from seven of Murfree's novels.
Schmidt,
Ronald G., and William S. Hooks. 1994. Glossary. Whistle over the mountain:
Timber, track and trails in the Tennessee smokies. Graphicom.
Schulman,
Steven A. 1973. Logging terms from the upper Cumberland river. Tennessee
Folklore Society Bulletin 39.35-36. [Western Kentucky]. Twenty- seven
terms from the logging industry.
Shearin,
Hubert G. 1911. An Eastern Kentucky dialect word-list. Dialect Notes
3.537-40. 150 items, many in modified phonetic transcription.
Shoemaker,
Henry W. 1930. Thirteen hundred old time words. Altoona, PA: Times Tribune.
75 pp.
Shott,
Hugh Ike, II. 1951. A lexical study of the vocabulary of Alberta Pierson
Hannum's regional novel Thursday April. Charlottesville: University
of Virginia thesis. Identifies dialect and unusual words used by W
North Carolina novelist and crossreferences them to eight dictionaries.
Tedford,
Ted R. 1976. Folk vocabulary of Western NC: some recent changes. Appalachian
Journal 3.277-84. Discusses massive generational changes in folk vocabulary
for house and farm items and for wild and domestic animals.
Thompson,
Kathy, ed. 1976. The Thompson family dictionary. Touching home: A collection
of history and folklore from the Copper Basin, Fannin County area, 12-18.
Blue Ridge, GA.
Thornton,
Richard H. 1916. Comment on "A word-list from Virginia."Dialect Notes 4.349-50.
[Southwest Virginia]. Discusses seven older items. Compare Dingus item
in chapter one.
Tresidder,
Argus. 1940. Some Virginia provincialisms. Quarterly Journal of Speech
26.262-69. Lexical notes on unusual terms in old-fashioned Virginia speech
of Tidewater, Piedmont, and mountain areas; also discusses German contributions
to Virginia speech.
W.,
H. C. 1957. Some unrecorded hunting terms found in Kentucky. Kentucky
Folklore Record 3.4.
Warnick,
Florence. 1942. The dialect of Garrett County, Maryland. Privately
printed. 16 pp. [Western Maryland]. Popular glossary of words and phrases
collected of Appalachian area of Maryland from 1900-1918.
Watkins,
Floyd C. 1963. Yesterday in the hills. Chicago: Quadrangle. Cherokee
County, Georgia, folk culture, including lexicon.
Weals,
Vic. c1959. Hillbilly dictionary (revised): an edifying collection of mountain
expressions. Gatlinburg, TN: privately printed. Dictionary of 175 lexical,
grammatical, and phonological items.
Weeks,
Abigail. 1910. A word list from Barbourville, Kentucky. Dialect Notes 3.456-57.
Forty-five items.
Weir,
H. L. 1922. The dialect of the Southern highlands. 14 pp. manuscript in
Berea College Library. Comments on lack of foreign terms in Appalachian
speech and devises ten categories of distinctive Appalachian words. Based
mainly on lists in Dialect Notes.
Wentworth,
Harold. 1944. American dialect dictionary. New York: Crowell. 747 pp. Large
volume containing more than 15,000 terms (many not appearing in another
index or dictionary) that vary geographically in pronunciation, form, or
meaning, these terms compiled from wordlists published in Dialect Notes
and American Speech and from unpublished collections. Reviews:1944.
Christian Science Monitor, July 22, p. 11;1944. New York Times, July 23,
p. 25.;1944. New Yorker, July 29, p. 64;1944. Wisconsin Library Bulletin,
Nov., p. 144.
West,
Don. 1957. "Hill-billy," "plowboy," "wool-hats," and "crackers." Southern
Newsletter 2.10.6-8. Says four terms are used in prejudicial and erroneous
way to imply that poor whites are responsible for persecution of blacks.
Westover,
J. Hutson. 1960. Highland language of the Cumberland coal country. Mountain
Life and Work 36.18-21.
White,
Edward M. 1963. The vocabulary of marbles in Eastern Kentucky. Kentucky
Folklore Record 9.57-74. 4 maps. See also K. B. Harder, Publication of
the American Dialect Society 23.3-33 (Apr. 1955), and J. H. Combs, ibid.,
33-34.
White,
Linda C. 1975. Unemphatic love. Western Folklore 34.154. Describes use
of word love in "an unemotional, often negative vein" in Cumberland
County, Kentucky.
Wilder,
Roy, Jr. 1975. You all spoken here: a handy, illustrated guide to carryin'
on in the South. First verse. Spring Hope, NC: Gourd Hollow Press. 20 pp.
Popular "collation of words and phrases and expressions in common
and ordinary day-by-day use in the South"; includes many figures
of speech.
Wilder,
Roy, Jr. 1976. You all spoken here: a handy, illustrated guide to carryin'
on in the South. Second verse. Spring Hope, NC: Gourd Hollow Press. 20
pp. Sequel to preceding item, with same kind of material.
Wilder,
Roy, Jr. 1977. You all spoken here: a handy, illustrated guide to carryin'
on in the South. Third verse. Spring Hope, NC: Gourd Hollow Press. Sequel
to preceding item, with same kind of material.
Wilder,
Roy, Jr. 1984. You all spoken here. New York: Morrow. 213 pp. Lengthy compilation
of colorful expressions, collected by personal observation and
from reading newspapers, books, and magazines; lacks information on regional
or social distribution or on source of material. Review:J. Burges. 1986.
Southern English Newsletter 4.5-6.
Wilgus,
D. K. 1959. Down our way: who's in town-Kentucky Folklore Record 5.1-8.
Describes eight children's games and their unusual terminology.
Wilgus,
D. K., and L. Montell. 1959. Notes: "uker."Kentucky Folklore Record 5.130.
Describes marble game by the name.
Williams,
Cratis D. 1944. A word-list from the mountains of Kentucky and North
Carolina. Publication of the American Dialect Society 2.28-31. [Mainly
East Kentucky, Western North Carolina]. Fifty-two items.
Wilson,
George P. 1944. A word-list from Virginia and North Carolina. Publication
of the American Dialect Society 2.38-52. Glossary of items crossreferenced
to Oxford English Dictionary and English Dialect Dictionary where
possible.
Wilson,
George P. 1958. Some folk sayings from North Carolina. North Carolina Folklore
6.2.7-18.
Wilson,
Gordon. 1963. Studying folklore in a small region--IV: regional words.
Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 29.79-86. Discusses rustic vocabulary
and place names; calls for more interest in folk language.
Wilson,
Gordon. 1964. Words relating to plants and animals in the Mammoth Cave
region. Publication of the American Dialect Society 42.11-25. Reprinted
in Folklore of the Mammoth Cave Region (Bowling Green: Kentucky Folklore
Society, 1968), pp. 12-26. More than 200 items collected in W Kentucky.
Wilson,
Gordon. 1965-66. Mammoth cave words. Kentucky Folklore Record 11. Sections:I
Around the house. Kentucky Folklore Record 11.5-8;II Around the house some
more. Kentucky Folklore Record 11. 28-31 (Apr.-June, 1965);III Neighborhood
doings. Kentucky Folklore Record 11.52-55 (July-Sept., 1965);IV More neighborhood
doings. Kentucky Folklore Record 11.78-81 (Oct.-Dec., 1965);V Some good
regional verbs. Kentucky Folklore Record 12.15-20 (Jan.- Mar., 1966);VI
Some folk nouns. Kentucky Folklore Record 12.67-71 (Apr.- June, 1966);VII
Some more folk nouns. Kentucky Folklore Record 12.93-98 (July-Sept., 1966);VIII
Some useful adjectives. Kentucky Folklore Record 12.73-74 (Oct.-Dec., 1966).
First four articles reprinted in Folklore of the Mammoth Cave Region, edited
by Lawrence Thompson (Bowling Green: Kentucky Folklore Society, 1968).
Wilson,
Gordon. 1969. Some Mammoth Cave sayings: I. Sayings with a farm flavor.
Kentucky Folklore Record 15.12-21; 15.37-44 (Apr.-June, 1969): 15.69- 74
(July-Sept., 1969).
Wilson,
Gordon. 1970-71. Origins of the people of the Mammoth Cave region as shown
by their surnames and regional words. Kentucky Folklore Record 17.10-18,
regional words I;17.31-39, regional words II.
Wood,
Gordon R. 1958. A list of words from Tennessee. Publication of the American
Dialect Society 29.3-18. 152 items, submitted mostly by the public in response
to newspaper solicitations from the writer.
Wood,
Gordon R. 1959. Report on dialect collecting in Tennessee. Abstract in
South Atlantic Bulletin 24.3.4. Progress report on postal questionnaire.
Wood,
Gordon R. 1960. Heard in the South: the progress of a word geography. Tennessee
Folklore Society Bulletin 26.1-7. Discusses early stages of author's large-scale
postal survey of Southern vocabulary.
Wood,
Gordon R. 1963. Dialect contours in the Southern states. American Speech
38.243-56. 7 maps. Discusses major lexical isoglosses showing Midland-Southern
boundary in eight states in interior South that were settled after 1800
and correlates vocabulary with three stages of settlement history
of region: advancing frontier, growth of towns, and increase of regional
communication.
Wood,
Gordon R. 1971. Vocabulary change: a study of variation in regional words
in eight of the Southern states. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press. Comprehensive work based primarily on postal questionnaire of over
1,000 informants that studies generational and subregional patterns of
nearly 1200 words and expressions in the mid-South. Uses ninety-four figures
and maps to relate these patterns to agricultural regions and to 19th-century
migration across the South. Reviews:W. J. Griffin. 1972. Tennessee Folklore
Society Bulletin 38.82-83;J. B. McMillan. 1972. Mississippi Quarterly 8.101-
04;H. W. Marshall. 1974. Journal of American Folklore 87.101-02;L.
Pederson. 1973. Language 49.184-87.
Woodard,
C. M. 1946. A word-list from Virginia and North Carolina. Publication of
the American Dialect Society 6.4-43. [Primarily Pamplico County, North
Carolina, Salem, Virginia]. Extended wordlist, with notes of frequency
of use; includes a ten-page list of sayings and similes.
Woodbridge,
Hensley C. 1956. 1. "To funk."2. "Dog run."American Speech 31.309-10. First
is Kentucky term meaning "to spoil tobacco"; second cited term from AR
and FL and refers to dogs trotting over loose, dry boards.
Woodbridge,
Hensley C. 1957. Some unrecorded hunting terms found in Kentucky. Kentucky
Folklore Record 3.153-58. Discusses twenty-nine terms, most from Harriette
Arnow's Hunter's Horn; based on Armstrong, Cauthern, and Dominick.
Woodbridge,
Hensley C. 1958. Americanisms in James Still's The Nest. Kentucky
Folklore Record 4.63-64. [Kentucky]. Six terms, including crawdabber
and battle out, not appearing in the Dictionary of Americanisms.
Woodbridge,
Hensley C. 1958. Flats and bottoms. Kentucky Folklore Record 4.175. Use
of these terms, referring to land bordering water, in Hopkins County, Kentucky.
Woofter,
Carey. 1927. Dialect words and phrases from West-Central West Virginia.
American Speech 2.347-67. [Central West Virginia]. Extended word- list
from Little Kanawha Valley.
IV.
PHONOLOGY AND PHONETICS
Atherton,
H. E., and Darrell L. Gregg. 1929. A study of dialect differences. American
Speech 4.216-23. [North Carolina]. Early acoustic comparison of phonograph
recordings of speakers from North Carolina and South England, analyzing
length of words in millimeters of film per second, frequency of double
vibrations, and pitch level.
Atwood,
E. Bagby. 1950. Grease and greasy: a study of geographical variation. University
of Texas Studies in English 29.249-60. Analyzes distribution of [s]
and [z] pronunciations in New England and Atlantic states and finds
[z] pronunciations dominate from Western Pennsylvania southward; compares
results to Hempl and Thomas. Reprinted in H. B. Allen. 1958. Readings in
Applied English Linguistics. 1st ed., 158-67; 1964. 2nd ed., 242- 51; Bobbs-Merrill
Reprint Series, Language-2.
Bailey,
Charles-James N. 1985. English phonetic transcription. Dallas, TX: Summer
Institute of Linguistics. 265 pp. Textbook on phonetics for students
of linguistics, with many examples from Southern English; includes
suprasegmentals and intonation. Review: G. Bailey. 1988. Southern English
Newsletter 5.
Bailey,
Guy. 1979. Folk speech on the Cumberland plateau: a phonological analysis.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee dissertation. Abstract in
Dissertation Abstracts International 40.5031A. [Older, less educated Whites,
East Tennessee]. Outlines segmental phonemic structure of speech of area,
describing phonological processes and offering phonetic, contextual,
and historial explanations for variants.
Boiarsky,
Carolyn. 1969. Consistency of spelling and pronunciation deviations in
Appalachian students. Modern Language Journal 53.347-50. [High school students,
West Virginia]. Studies "pronunciation of certain words by Appalachian
students and analyzes the consistency betwen the Appalachian dialectal
pronunciation of certain vowels and the spelling of words" in which
they appear"; identifies four "vowel shifts" in Appalachian speech,
three dealing with pronunciation of front vowels before /l/.
Boiarsky,
Carolyn. 1970. Improving oral communication of Appalachian youth through
rhyme. Modern Language Journal 54.188-89. Discusses a model "from which
Appalachian students can learn to differentiate between their dialectal
pronunciation of certain vowels and pronunciation of those vowels
in Standard American English" and reports on project using five pilot lessons,
based on an aural-oral approach, to assist such students.
Butters,
Ronald R. 1981. Unstressed vowels in Appalachian English. American Speech
56.104-10. Discusses constraints on raising of final unstressed schwa in
Appalachian speech and tries to unite interpretations of Wolfram and Christian
and Kurath and McDavid.
Callary,
Robert E. 1973. Indications of regular sound shifting in an Appalachian
dialect. Appalachian Journal 1.238-40. Says dialect spellings
in Dargan's 1932 Appalachian novel Call Home the Heart reveal systematic
differences between Appalachian dialect and standard English that can demonstrated
by phonological rules.
Cavender,
Anthony Patterson. 1974. A phonemic and phonetic analysis of
the folk speech of Bedford County, Tennessee. Knoxville: University
of Tennessee thesis. [5 Whites over 70, South Central Tennessee]. Study
undertaken to provide baseline data for Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States
and other work in Middle Tennessee; no comparison with speech elsewhere.
Uses approach developed by Harold Orton.
Cogdill,
Cindy A., Judith Harkins, and Karl Nicholas. 1978. A good mill will make
you fill better. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics Bulletin 2.2.62-
66. [91 Western North Carolina, ages 7 to 79]. Investigates laxing
of /i/ before /l/ as change in progress; finds orthographic <ea> more
likely to lax than <ee>.
Davis,
Arthur Kyle, Jr., and Archibald A. Hill. 1933. Dialect notes on records
of folk songs from Virginia. American Speech 8.4.52-56. [Southwest Virginia].
Discriminates which features of recorded folk songs are due to rhythm
and other effects of singing and which are of genuine interest to dialectologists
and focuses on vowel quality, postvocalic /r/, pronunciation of normally
unstressed function words when stressed, verb principal parts, and other
features.
Davis,
Margaret B. 1975. A study of East Tennessee regional phonology: its
influence on reading performance. Knoxville: University of Tennessee dissertation.
88 pp. Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 36.7183A.
[20 White 1st, 3rd graders, 20 White elementary teachers, Sevier County,
East Tennessee]. Finds that both students and teachers differed from expected
pronunciations and that both groups showed wide variation in pronunciation.
Furbee,
N. Louanna. 1972. Transcription of Appalachian child's English. Culture,
class, and language variety: a re-source book for teachers, ed. by A. L.
Davis, pp. 212-13. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
Orthographic and brief phonetic transcript of ten-year-old child from
Barboursville, Kentucky.
Habick,
Timothy. 1980. Sound change in farmer city: a sociolinguistic study
based on acoustic data. Urbana: University of Illinois dissertation.
Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 41.655A. 441 pp. [7 speakers,
3 generations, Somerset, Kentucky, 40 speakers from Illinois]. Spectrographic
analysis of generational differences in vowel offglides and placement
of /u/ vowel. Includes comments on southern drawl.
Hackett,
William A. 1940. An analysis and suggested solution of the educational
problem resultant from dialectal pronunciations in the Southern Appalachians.
Columbus: Ohio State University dissertation.
Hale,
Lulu Cooper. 1930. A study of English pronunciation in Kentucky. Lexington:
University of Kentucky thesis. 60 pp. [44 Univ. of Kentucky students from
33 counties]. Discusses pronunciation of vowels, diphthongs, and two consonants
(postvocalic /r/ and final velar nasal); includes alphabetical list of
words.
Hall,
Joseph S. 1942. The phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain speech. Also in American
Speech 17 (Apr., 1942), part 2. Same as American Speech Reprints and Monographs,
No. 4. New York: Columbia University Press. Bibliography, 107- 10. New
York: Columbia University dissertation. [Tennessee, North Carolina].
Study based on seventy-three recordings of "Arthur the Rat" story
and on folk and local stories recorded between 1937 and 1940, covering
stressed vowels, unstressed vowels, and consonants, but little
attention to social variation. Reviews:R. I. McDavid, Jr. 1943. Language
19.184-95; A. H. Marckwardt. 1942. Quarterly Journal of Speech 28.487;L.
Roberts. 1964. Mountain Life and Work 40.4.225; D. Whitelock. 1944.
Year's Work in English Studies 23.28-29.
Harris,
Alberta. 1948. Southern mountain dialect. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University thesis. Abstract in Louisiana State University Bulletin, n.s.
41.87 (1949). 116 pp. [Southern Appalachia, Ozarks, East Texas]. States
there is little difference in pronunciation between three areas, based
on evidence collected from personal observation, classroom teaching,
published literature, and recordings made by author.
Hartman,
Erika. 1981. The front vowels before r of the north-central states. Chicago:
Illinois Institute of Technology dissertation. Abstract in Dissertation
Abstracts International 42.3137A. [Includes Kentucky]. Discusses diminishing
contrasts in phonemic system as revealed in Linguistic Atlas of the North
Central States field records.
Kruse,
Vernon David. 1972. The pronunciation of English in Kentucky,
based on the records of the Linguistic Atlas of the North-Central states.
Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology dissertation. Abstract in Dissertation
Abstracts International 33.4388A. Describes vowels of Kentucky speech,
using binary analysis; includes chapter on methods of field work, informants,
settlement history, and dialect areas.
Kurath,
Hans, and Raven I. McDavid, Jr. 1961. The pronunciation of English in the
Atlantic States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. xi + 364 pp.
180 maps. Paperback edition 1982 published by University of Alabama
Press. [Includes Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia]. Authoritative phonological demarcation of
dialect areas based on field records of Linguistic Atlas of the Middle
and South Atlantic States and Linguistic Atlas of New England interviews.
Presents pronunciation of educated natives in series of seventy synoptic
charts of pronunciation of individual speakers, detailed descriptions of
how specific words are pronounced throughout the Atlantic states, and 180
large maps that show distribution of various pronunciations of key words.
Reviews:W. S. Avis. 1965. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 11.63-70;F.
H. Beukema. 1967. Orbis 16.577-79;A. J. Bronstein. 1962. Quarterly Journal
of Speech 68.440-41; R. M. Dorson. 1963. Ohio History 72.73-75;N. E. Eliason.
1962. South Atlantic Quarterly 61.121-22;T. Hill. 1962. Modern Language
Review 58.624-25;S. J. Keyser. 1963. Language 39.303-16;L'Annee Sociologique.
1963. Ser. 3.531;Leuvense Bijdragen. 1963. 52.180-81;F. F. Lewis. 1962.
Professional Geographer 14.35;J. Y. Mather. 1963. Review of English
Studies 14.216-18;J. E. Medcalf. 1962. Notes and Queries n.s. 9.402-03;G.
Scherer. 1962. Beitrage zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur
84;A. W. Stanforth. 1963-64. Zeitschrift fur Mundartforschung 30.374-75;B.
Trnka. 1962. Philologica Pragensia 5.176-77;B. Trnka. 1962. Casopis
pro Moderni Filologii 44.188-90;E. T. Uldall. 1962. Le Maitre Phonetique
117.29-31;W. Viereck. 1967. Lebende Sprachen 12.58-59;R. M. Wilson. 1963.
Year's Work in English Studies 42.51;K-H Wirzburger. 1966. Zeitschrift
fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 14.215-16.
McDavid,
Raven I., Jr. 1943. Review of The phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain speech
by Joseph S. Hall. Language 19.84-95. Extended review criticizing Hall's
fieldwork and presentation of material.
McDavid,
Raven I., Jr., and Virginia Glenn McDavid. 1952. h before semivowels
in the Eastern United States. Language 28.41-62. Initial consonants in
whip,
whetstone, wheelbarrow,
whinny, wharf,
whoa,
and humor in atlas records; includes Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and East Georgia.
Morgan,
Lucia C. 1970. The status of /r/ among North Carolina speakers. Essays
in honor of Claude M. Wise, ed. by Arthur J. Bronstein, Claude L. Shaver,
and C. Stevens, 167-86. New York: Speech Association of America. [120 Whites,
15 Blacks native to North Carolina, ages 5-87]. 21 maps. Analyzes regional
and age differences in pronunciation of postvocalic /r/ within state.
Nicholas,
Karl. 1982. Think you for the wedding rang. Southeastern Conference on
Linguistics Review 6.131-37. [77 Whites, Western North Carolina; 25 Whites,
Central North Carolina]. Finds raising of vowel before nasal in words like
thank
and sang is strong in lower working class mountain speech and is
increasing in North Carolina Piedmont.
Pennington,
Martha. 1973. A phonology of the speech of Floyd County, Georgia. Penn
Review of Linguistics 1.1-12. [Northeast Georgia]. Detailed analysis of
vowels in stressed syllables and sibilants and phonological processes affecting
them.
Pennington,
Martha Carswell. 1982. The story of "s" or everything you always wanted
to know about sibilants but were afraid to ask. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania dissertation. Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts
International 43.3585. [Rome, Georgia]. Investigates form and phonological
and social distribution of sibilants in Rome area; finds that backing
of some types of sibilants expresses "local and rural identity and solidarity,
particularly among males," that these sibilants "may be an expression
of an American country-western image and so may be increasing in frequency."
Reese,
James Robert. 1983. Intonational variation in southern Appalachian English.
Abstract in Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 15.2.5. Suggests
computer analysis of pitch, stress, vowel length, and juncture can be used
to identify and classify dialects in Southern Appalachian region.
Thomas,
Charles Kenneth. 1939. A composite transcription from Knox County, Tennessee.
American Speech 14.125-26; 15.85 (Feb. 1940). Composite transcription
of twenty-six Knox County natives who were students at the University
of Tennessee.
Wetmore,
Thomas H. 1959. The low-central and low-back vowels in the English of the
Eastern United States. Publication of the American Dialect Society
32. Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 18.1423. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan dissertation, 1957. Analyzes and describes low-central
and low-back vowel phonemes, their phonic characteristics, and their incidence
in the Eastern U.S., based on Linguistic Atlas of New England and
Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States field records.
Includes W North Carolina, pp. 59-68. Reviews:M. L. Gateau. 1963.
Word 18.362;C. K. Thomas. 1961. American Speech 36.201-03;K. Wittig. 1962.
Anglia 80.161-64.
White,
Dorothy. 1934. Improving the pronunciation of high school seniors. Morgantown:
West Virginia University thesis. [West Virginia]. Discusses nonstandard
pronunciations of supervisors, teachers, and students at university
laboratory high school.
Williams,
Cratis D. 1961. The "r" in mountain speech. Mountain Life and Work 37.5-8.
Argues "a heavy r is a general characteristic" of Appalachian speech
that sets "it apart, quantitatively rather than qualitatively, from
that of other Southern and Midwestern groups descended from similar pioneer
stock"; exemplifies epenthesis and other processes and discusses pronunciation
of vowels and diphthongs before /r/.
Wise,
Claude Merton. 1957. Applied phonetics. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice
Hall. Mountain speech, pp. 303-21. Presents inventories of phonetic
and phonological features, with transcription exercises.
V.
MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX
Armstrong,
Mary Sheila. l953. Survivals in Kentucky. American Speech 28.306-07. [Kentucky].
Reports compound adjectives like disgraceful indecent in novel
by Kentuckian Harriet Arnow that are similar to Shakespearian usages.
Atwood,
E. Bagby. l953. A survey of verb forms in the Eastern United States. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Maine to Northeast Florida]. Using
records from Linguistic Atlas of New England and Linguistic Atlas of the
Middle and South Atlantic States, details regional patterns in eighty-eight
verb features, including principal parts, subject-verb agreement,
negative constructions, infinitives, and modals.
Axley,
Lowry. 1927. "You all" and "we all" again. American Speech 2.343-45. Comments
on use of you'uns and you all; says in lifetime of experience
he has "never heard any person of any degree of education or station of
life use the expression you all" as singular.
Axley,
Lowry. 1928. West Virginia dialect. American Speech 3.456. Notes many items
in Carey Woofter article that he finds in Savannah, Georgia.
Bergin,
Kendall Russell. 1984. The relationship of English composition grades
to oral (social) dialect: an analysis of dialectal and non-dialectal
writing errors. Cultural language
differences:
their educational and clinical-professional implications, ed.
by Sol Adler, pp. 29-43. Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas. [9 Blacks,
26 Whites, Univ. of Tennessee students]. Claims strong correlation
between oral dialect use (based on instructor rating) and errors in written
composition (based on Harbrace College Handbook).
Blanton,
Linda L. 1974. The verb system in Breathitt County, Kentucky: a sociolinguistic
analysis. Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology dissertation. Abstract
in Dissertation Abstracts International 35.7888-89A. [22 speakers, East
Kentucky]. Analyzes dialect patterns of subject-verb concord, auxiliary
deletion, tense marking, and negation and finds all very frequent;
concludes "that the verb system, as a whole, has undergone a great deal
of morphological leveling."
Blanton,
Linda L. 1975. The verb system in Breathitt County, Kentucky: a sociolinguistic
analysis. Reviewed in Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 8.3.13.
Finds disagreements in studies of Appalachian English in West Virginia
and Kentucky and reasons to doubt such an entity as Appalachian English
exists.
Blanton,
Linda. 1977. How nonstandard is "Appalachian English"-Abstract in Newsletter
of the American Dialect Society 9.3.7-8. Argues that most previous
descriptions of Appalachian speech were distorted by focusing on only
nonstandard forms, and claims that for grammatical categories Appalachian
speech is far less nonstandard than generally thought.
Butters,
Ronald R., and Kristin Stettler. 1986. Causative and existential
"have ... to."American Speech 61.184-90. [57 Duke University students].
Finds structure used almost exclusively by Southerners and South Midlanders
and less by females than males.
Christian,
Donna. 1975. Non-participle "done" and non-productive classification. Eric
Document 116 499. 26 pp. Examines proposals for classifying auxiliary done
and, using data from Appalachian English, says that both semantic information
(perfectiveness) and pragmatic information (emphasis) must be
added to the syntactic information before classifying it.
Christian,
Donna M. 1978. Aspects of verb usage in Appalachian speech. Washington:
Georgetown University dissertation. Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts
International 39.7317A. [26 Males, 26 Females, ages 7-93, Southern West
Virginia]. Examines patterns in irregular verb principal parts and
subject-verb concord and provides evidence for language change in progress.
Classifies verbs with nonstandard principal parts into five categories
and finds nonstandard subject-verb concord "occurs only with plural subjects,
with the exception of the item `don't'."
Christian,
Donna. 1982. The personal dative in Appalachian speech. Abstract in Newsletter
of the American Dialect Society 14.3.6. [West Virginia]. Describes characteristics
of personal dative and compares it to for-dative construction.
Coleman,
William L. 1975. Multiple modals in Southern states English. Bloomington:
Indiana University dissertation. Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International
36.2174-75A. Using quantitative analysis and implicational scaling, identifies
three regional patterns of multiple modal variation in North Carolina with
range of acceptable modal combinations increasing from east to west.
Coleman,
William L. 1975. Regional distribution of double modals usage in North
Carolina. Abstract in Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 8.3.10.
[179 informants from North Carolina, mostly from Piedmont area]. Uses implicational
scales to show how acceptability of double-modal constructions
is regionally distributed.
Dietrich,
Julia C. 1981. The Gaelic roots of a-prefixing in Appalachian
English. American Speech 56.314. Says form reported by Wolfram derives
from Gaelic verbal noun construction and results "not from a careless handling
of English grammar but from a careful preservation of Scottish Gaelic grammar,
learned generations ago and applied to English long before the migration
to America."
Feagin,
Louise C[rawford]. 1976. A sociolinguistic study of Alabama white English:
the verb phrase in Anniston. 2 vols. Washington: Georgetown University
dissertation. Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 38.3445A.
Published in abridged form as Feagin 1979 below.
Feagin,
Crawford. 1979. Variation and change in Alabama English: a sociolinguistic
study of the white community. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
Foreword by William Labov. 395 pp. [67 urban, 15 rural, 34 teenagers; 5
middle aged, 43 older; 44 Females, 38 Males, Anniston, Alabama]. Monumental
analysis of linguistic and social (class, urban/rural, age, gender)
constraints on features of verb phrase (tense, aspect, person- number agreement,
modality, negation, etc.) in white speech in Anniston, Alabama, comparing
it to black and to British speech. Reviews:R. Butters. 1981. Language 57.735-38;B.
Davis. 1982. Language in Society 11.139-41;T. C. Frazer. 1980. Journal
of English Linguistics 14.41-44;R. McDavid, Jr. 1982. English World-Wide
2.99-110;J. B. McMillan. 1980. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics
Bulletin 4.86-88;M. I. Miller. 1981. American Speech 56.288-95;B. Rigsby.
1981. Australian Journal of Linguistics 1.122- 27;H. Ulherr.
1982. Anglia 100.484-85;H. B. Woods. 1981. Canadian Journal of Linguistics
26.250-51.
Hackenberg,
Robert G. 1973. Appalachian English: a sociolinguistic study. Washington:
Georgetown University dissertation. Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts
International 33.6893A. [39 speakers, Nicholas County, West Virginia].
Finds subject-verb concord is grammatical feature with most nonstandard
forms, subject relative pronoun deletion is heavily favored by existential
there,
and a-prefixing "is most likely to occur when there is a stress
on the duration of the action"; provides rough correlations of nonstandard
forms with educational and occupational indexes.
Hackenberg,
Robert. 1977. Language variation in Appalachia. Abstract in Newsletter
of the American Dialect Society 9.3.9. [75 speakers in Nicholas County,
West Virginia]. Finds that nonstandard subject-verb agreement and
nonstandard subject relative pronoun deletion correlate with social
class of speakers.
Hills,
E. C. 1926. The plural forms of "you."American Speech 2.133. Notes you
all used by cultivated speakers in Florida and North Carolina, you'uns
used by uncultivated speakers in North Carolina and Tennessee mountains.
Kenny,
Hamill. 1935. "To" in West Virginia. American Speech 10.314-15. Preposition
equivalent to stative at and equivalent to with/under
in phrase take a course to a professor.
Kester,
Barbara D. 1986. Appalachian and urban grammatical patterns: a note
on standardized tests. Ohio University Working Papers in Linguistics
and Language Teaching 8.58-62.
McDavid,
Raven I., Jr., and Virginia G. McDavid. 1964. Plurals of nouns of measure
in the United States. Studies in languages and linguistics in honor
of Charles C. Fries, ed. by Albert H. Marchwardt, pp. 271-301. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan English Language Institute. 12 maps.
Examines distribution of zero plurals of seven nouns (including foot,
pound,
and bushel) in Linguistic Atlas of New England, Linguistic Atlas
of the Middle and South Atlantic States, Linguistic Atlas of the Noth Central
States, and Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest data; finds regional
variation more significant than social variation and no black-white
differences at all.
McDavid,
Raven I., Jr. and Virginia G. McDavid. 1986. Kentucky verb forms. Language
variety in the South: perspectives in black and white, ed. by Michael
Montgomery and Guy Bailey, pp. 264-93. University: University of Alabama
Press. Details social and regional distribution of variant principal parts
for thirty-eight strong verbs among Linguistic Atlas of the North Central
States informants in Kentucky; compares patterns to Linguistic
Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States and Linguistic Atlas of New
England data.
McDavid,
Virginia Glenn. 1958. Verb forms of the north central states and upper
midwest. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota dissertation. Includes
Kentucky data.
McDavid,
Virginia G[lenn]. 1977. The social distribution of selected verb forms
in the Linguistic Atlas of the North Central states. James B. McMillan:
essays in linguistics by his friends and colleagues, ed. by James C. Raymond
and I. Willis Russell, pp. 41-50. University: University of Alabama
Press. Examines principal parts for ten strong verbs in Linguistic Atlas
of the North Central States; finds "a generally lower use of standard forms"
and "a higher use of relic forms" in Kentucky.
Miles,
Celia H. 1980. Selected verb features in Haywood County, North Carolina:
a generational study. Indiana, PA: Indiana University of Pennsylvania dissertation.
Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 41.2089A. [30 speakers,
ages 10-75, Western North Carolina]. Studies retention of older verb forms
such as a-prefixing and variation in principal parts of twenty-four
irregular verbs in three generations and finds that "while the dialect
is not preserving older forms to any large extent, it is maintaining a
high degree of nonstandard usage in irregular verb forms."
Montgomery,
Michael B. 1978. Left dislocation: its nature in Appalachian speech.
Southeastern Conference on Linguistics Bulletin 2.55-61. [20 Whites, Southern
West Virginia]. Using data from W. Wolfram-D. Christian study, shows functions
and varieties of patterns in which left dislocation occurs.
Montgomery,
Michael B. 1979. A discourse analysis of expository Appalachian English.
Gainesville: University of Florida dissertation. Abstract in Dissertation
Abstracts International 40.5036A. [18 Males, 22 Females, ages 16-87, East
Tennessee]. Studies distribution and discourse functions of grammatical
and rhetorical devices such as left dislocation, deictic pronouns, and
conjunctions.
Montgomery,
Michael B. 1979. The discourse organization of explanatory Appalachian
speech. Papers of the 1978 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, ed. by Ralph
E. Cooley, et al., pp. 293-302. Norman: University of Oklahoma. Excerpt
of preceding item. [18 Males, 22 Females, ages 16-87, East Tennessee].
Examines patterning of left dislocation and other syntactic patterns
for presenting new information in discourse.
Montgomery,
Michael B. 1980. Inchoative verbs in East Tennessee English. Southeastern
Conference on Linguistics Bulletin 4.77-85. [40 Whites, East Tennessee].
Study of syntax and semantics of verbs go to, get to,
and get to be.
Montgomery,
Michael B. 1983. The functions of left dislocation in spontaneous discourse.
The ninth LACUS forum, ed. by John Morreall, pp. 425- 32. Columbia, SC:
Hornbeam Press. Excerpt of Montgomery dissertation showing subtleties
of syntactic patterning of left dislocation.
Montgomery,
Michael. 1999. A superlative complex in Appalachian English. The SECOL
Review 23.1-14
Perry,
Louise Sublette. 1941. A study of the pronoun "hit" in Grassy Branch, North
Carolina. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University thesis. [62 speakers,
ages 5-87, Western North Carolina]. 58 pp. Says that aspirated variant
of it appears most commonly in initial positions, after a pause,
and in stressed and emphatic contexts, and it is used primarily by older
and less educated speakers.
Underwood,
Gary N. 1983. Mid-South, midwestern teachers, and middle-of-the-road
textbooks. Black English: educational equity and the law, ed. by John
Chambers, Jr., pp. 81-96. Ann Arbor, MI: Karoma. Examines ten common syntactic
features in the "Mid-South" (Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas,Southern Missouri)
that are socially marked when speakers move to Midwest, and finds features
are rarely mentioned in school textbooks.
Vincent,
Opal. 1945. Certain language habits and needs of the senior class of Harrisville
high school. Morgantown: West Virginia University thesis. Studies
nonstandard usage of verbs and pronouns.
Whitley,
M. Stanley. 1975. Dialectal syntax: plurals and modals in Southern American.
Linguistics 161.89-108. Investigates patterns of modals and associative
pronouns in Southern English and their relation to phrase structure rules
of other American English dialect systems; concludes that Southern
English and other systems can all be classified as dialects of one language.
Williams,
Cratis D. 1962. Verbs in mountain speech. Mountain Life and Work 38.15-19.
Discusses verb principal parts and says that the "primitive strength
of mountaineer speech is exerted largely in verbs and the spare economy
with which they function."
Williams,
Cratis D. 1964. Prepositions in mountain speech. Mountain Life and
Work 40.53-55. Says mountain speakers rely heavily on prepositions to express
themselves rather than Latinate words and that mountain grammar tends
not to have "distinctions between prepositions and subordinate conjunctives
and, frequently, relative pronouns."
Wilson,
Gordon. 1967. Studying folklore in a small region XII: some folk grammar.
Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 33.27-35. [Mammoth Cave, Kentucky].
Survey of noun, pronoun, and other morphological features from W Kentucky,
gleaned
from freshman compositions and from lifetime of personal
observation.
Wolfram,
Walt. 1976. Toward a description of "a"-prefixing in Appalachian English.
American Speech 51.45-56. [100 + children and adults, Southern West Virginia].
Examines syntactic properties, phonological constraints, and semantic
aspects of prefix; finds that it occurs mainly with -ing progressive
verbs and before stressed syllables beginning with a consonant and that
it has no apparent semantic content of indefiniteness or remoteness (contrary
to Stewart or of continuousness or intermittentness (contrary to Hackenberg).
Wolfram,
Walt. 1980. "A"-prefixing in Appalachian English. Locating language
in time and space, ed. by William Labov, pp. 107-42. New York: Academic
Press. [Southern West Virginia]. Detailed analysis of syntactic and
phonological constraints on use of prefix; finds no evidence for semantic
content.
Wolfram,
Walt. 1982. Language knowledge and other dialects. American Speech 57.3-18.
Theoretical essay examining how accurately nonnative speakers of a-
prefixing and distributive be judge syntactic constraints for these
features, in attempt to support view that speakers may have more than
one grammar for different styles of their language.
VI.
PLACE NAME STUDIES
Anonymous.
1957. Buncombe--talking to Buncombe. North Carolina Folklore 5.2.23.
Anonymous.
1967. Place name origins. Foxfire 1.62-72.
Cornett,
Terry. 1978. Local place-names are interesting. Mountain memories 11.14-16
(Spring-Summer).
Craig,
Marjorie. 1946. Western North Carolina place-names. North Carolina English
Teacher 3.3.12-15.
Fink,
Paul M. 1951. Some East Tennessee place names. Tennessee Folklore Society
Bulletin 7.40-50.
Fink,
Paul M. 1972. That's why they call it ...: the names and lore of the Great
Smokies. Gatlinburg, TN: Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association.
Fink,
Paul M. and Mylon H. Avery. 1937. The nomenclature of the Great Smoky Mountains.
East Tennessee Historical Society Publications 9.53-64.
Fullerton,
Ralph. 1974. Place names of Tennessee. Bulletin 73, State of Tennessee
Department of Conservation, Division of Geology. Nashville.
Ivey,
Mike. 1986. A rose by another name is a damned brier. Appalachian Heritage
14.3.
Kardos,
Andy. 1982-83. What's in a place name-Milepost IV.2.1.
Kay,
Donald. 1974. British influence on Kentucky municipal place names. Kentucky
Folklore Record 20.9-13.
Kay,
Donald. 1974. Municipal British-received place names in Tennessee. Appalachian
Journal 2.78-80.
Kegley,
Mary B. 1985. Names in the New River Valley (Virginia). Proceedings New
River Symposium April 11-13, 1985, Pipestem, West Virginia.
Kenny,
Hamill. 1945. West Virginia place names: their origin and meaning, including
the nomenclature of the streams and mountains. Piedmont, WV: Place
Name Press.
Montgomery,
James R. 1956. The nomenclature of the upper Tennessee River. East Tennessee
Historical Society Publications 28.46-57. Reprinted in East Tennessee
Historical Society Publication 51.151-62 (1979).
Rennick,
Robert M. 1985. Traditional accounts of some Eastern Kentucky place names.
Appalachian Notes 13.2-17.
Rennick,
Robert M. 1987. Some Pike County names: Leonard Roberts' contributions
to the Kentucky place name survey. Appalachian Heritage 15.2.51.55.
Rennick,
Robert M. 1988. Place name derivations are not always what they seem. Appalachian
Heritage 16.1.50-62. [Kentucky].
Still,
James A. 1929-30. Place names in the Cumberland mountains. American Speech
5.113.
United
States Geographic Board. 1934. Decisions June 30, 1932. Great Smoky Mountain
National Park North Carolina and Tennessee. Number 28. Washington: Government
Printing Office. 46 pp.
United
States Geographic Board. 1934. Decisions rendered April 5, 1933. Shenandoah
National Park Virginia. Number 35. Washington: Government Printing Office.
13 pp.
United
States Geographic Board. 1934. Decisions rendered April 5, 1933. Names
in the vicinity of Shenandoah National Park Virginia. Number 36. Washington:
Government Printing Office. 4 pp.
Walls,
David S. 1977. On the naming of Appalachia. An Appalachian symposium, ed.
by J. S. Williamson. pp. 56-76. Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium.
West
Virginia Heritage Foundation, comp. and ed. 1967. Origin of place names
in West Virginia. West Virginia heritage volume one. Richwood, West Virginia.
VII.
PERSONAL AND MISCELLANEOUS NAMES
Combs,
Josiah H. 1976. Combs: a study in comparative philology and genealogy.
Pensacola, FL: Privately printed. Traces naming patterns in Combs family
since 18th century.
Dunlap,
Fayette. 1913. A tragedy of surnames. Dialect Notes 4.7-8. On Americanization
of family names of early settlers from Pennsylvania in Boyle County, Kentucky.
Gaskins,
Avery F. 1970. The epithet "Guinea" in central West Virginia. Philological
Papers 17.41-44. Presents accounts of origin of term as it has become applied
to isolated triracial group in Barbour and Taylor counties, West Virginia.
McAtee,
W. L. 1957. Folk names of birds in Kentucky. Kentucky Warbler 33.27-37.
Lists common, folk, and scientific names for birds in state.
Mockler,
William Emmett Morgan. 1955. The surnames of trans-Allegheny VA: 1750-1800.
Columbus: Ohio State University dissertation. Abstract in Dissertation
Abstracts International 16.960A. Investigates etymology and phonology
of surnames of early West Virginia north of the Kanawha, based on official
public records, and includes dictionary. Reprinted in 1973 as West Virginia
Surnames: the Pioneers. Parsons, WV:West Virginia Dialect Society.
197 pp. Reviews:Raven I. McDavid, Jr. 1974. American Speech 49.149-51;Elsdon
C. Smith. 1975. Names 23.53.
Mockler,
William E. 1956. Surnames of Trans-Allegheny Virginia, 1750-1800. Names
4.1-17. Part II, Names 4.96-118 (1957). Based on preceding item.
Reed,
Louis. 1967. Family names. Warning in Appalachia: a study of Wirt County,
West Virginia, pp. 15-32. Morgantown: West Virginia University
Library.
Sizer,
Miriam M. 1933. Christian names in the Blue Ridge of Virginia. American
Speech 8.2.34-37. Finds "little conscious attempt to preserve in Christian
names the family relationship of different individuals."
Skinner,
James C. 1986. Nicknames, coal miners and group solidarity. Names
34.134-45. [33 White Males, 6 White Females]. Surveys prevalence and functions
of nicknames at four West Virginia and two Southwest Virginia coal mines.
Still,
James A. 1930. Christian names in the Cumberlands. American Speech 5.306-07.
Principal sourcs of given names and unusual naming practices.
Wilson,
Gordon. 1970-71. Origins of the people of the Mammoth Cave region as shown
by their surnames and regional words. Kentucky Folklore Record 16.73-78,
surnames.
Winkler,
J. S. 1972. Whence the name Dula- One plausibility. North Carolina Folklore
22.84-86.
Zelinsky,
Wilbur. 1970. Cultural variation in personal name patterns in the
Eastern United States. Annals of the Association of American Geographers
60.743-69. Finds regional patterns in choice of given names, which confirm
"the existence of three basic early American culture areas: New England,
the Midland, and the South."Based on frequency of principal male names
in sixteen selected counties in Eastern U.S. in 1790 and 1968.
VIII.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, EXAGGERATIONS, AND WORD-PLAY
Adams,
Henry J. 1976. Speech patterns. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 41.70-71.
104 figures of speech from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Berry,
Pearlleen D., and Mary Eva Repass, compilers. n.d. Granpa says ... superstitions
and sayings from Eastern Kentucky, pp. 18-22. Fredericksburg, VA: Foxhound
Enterprises. Cites sayings and idioms.
Blair,
Marion E. 1938. The prevalence of older English proverbs in Blount County,
Tennessee. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 4.1-24. [34 natives,
East Tennessee]. Investigates how many proverbs prevalent before 1500
are recognized by heterogeneous group of Blount County, TN, natives.
Boshears,
Frances, and Herbert Halpert. 1954. Proverbial comparisons from an
East Tennessee county. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 20.27-41. [East
Tennessee]. List of 1045 comparisons compiled in Scott County
Boswell,
George W. 1972. Tongue twisters and a few other examples of linguistic
folklore. Kentucky Folklore Record 18.49-51. Three dozen folk expressions,
mostly tongue twisters, from Mississippi and Kentucky.
Broadrick,
Estelle D. 1978. Old folks sayings and home-cures. Tennessee Folklore
Society Bulletin 44.35-36. One dozen proverbial sayings.
Clarke,
Mary Washington. 1965. Proverbs, proverbial phrases, and proverbial comparisons
in the writings of Jesse Stuart. Southern Folklore Quarterly 29.142-63.
Glossary.
Eastridge,
Nancy Emilia. 1939. Common comparisons and folk sayings. A study of folklore
in Adair County, Kentucky, 114-34. Nashville: George Peabody College thesis.
Anecdotal discussion of similes and list of 155 "epithets used to
show surprise, anger, disgust, or unhappiness."
Halpert,
Herbert. 1945. Grapevine Warp an' Tobacco Stick Fillin'. Southern Folklore
Quarterly 9.223-28. Songs, rimes, and sayings, most from Kentucky.
Halpert,
Herbert. 1951. A pattern of proverbial exaggeration from West Kentucky.
Midwest Folklore 1.41-47. A glossary.
Halpert,
Herbert. 1956. Some Wellerisms from Kentucky and Tennessee. Journal
of American Folklore 69.115-22. Sixty-two specimens, most from Kentucky
and Tennessee.
Hamilton,
Kim, and Dana Holcomb. 1979. Ole time expressions. Foxfire 13.1.69-72.
[Northeast Georgia]. List of similes collected by high school students
from their grandparents.
Roberts,
Leonard. 1952. Additional exaggerations from East Kentucky. Midwest
Folklore 2.163-66. Ninety-four items listed in order "to show some insight
into the way of life in the hilly, dissected third of the state, where
the hills rise from choked valleys on a forty-five degree angle to sharp
ridges."
Rogers,
E. G. 1950. Figurative language the folkway. Tennessee Folklore Society
Bulletin 16.71-75. Catalogs folk similes in eleven classes and presents
list metaphors, synecdoche, and hyperboles.
Rogers,
E. G. 1953. Some East Tennessee figurative exaggerations. Tennessee Folklore
Society Bulletin 19.36-40. List of ninety exaggerations heard in East
Tennessee.
Taylor,
Archer. 1962. Proverbial comparisons and similes in On troublesome
creek. Kentucky Folklore Record 8.87-95. Figures of speech in James
Still novel, set in Kentucky.
Wilkerson,
Isabelle Jeanette. 1963. A compilation of the proverbial expressions
in the works of Charles Egbert Craddock. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
thesis. Classifies material into twenty-eight categories.
Williams,
Cratis D. 1962. Metaphor in mountain speech. Mountain Life and Work 38.9,11-12.
Reprinted in Bobbs-Merrill Series, Language-100. Says "speech of Southern
Mountaineers bristles with strong language, pungent metaphors, vivid
similes, and vigorous personifications" and discusses social uses
of these figures of speech; says similes far outnumber all other types
of figurative expressions.
Williams,
Cratis D. 1963. Metaphor in mountain speech. Mountain Life and Work 39.1.50-53.
Discusses figures of speech and traditional expressions for characterizing
great physical strength, unusual courage, honesty, strength of convictions,
and other personal traits in Southern Appalachian speech.
Williams,
Cratis D. 1963. Metaphor in mountain speech. Mountain Life and Work 39.2.51-53.
Discusses and exemplifies exaggerations used in Southern mountains.
Wilson,
Gordon. 1956. Down our way: tell us what it's like. Kentucky Folklore Record
2.1-3. Sample similes based on ten adjectives such as big, crooked,
etc.
Wilson,
Gordon. 1965. Proverbial lore. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 31.99-104.
[Western Kentucky]. Classified list of proverbs from Mammoth Cave
region.
Wilson,
Gordon. 1968. Similes from the Mammoth Cave region with a farm flavor.
Kentucky Folklore Record 14.44-50; 14.69-75; 14.94-99. [Western Kentucky].
Woodbridge,
Hensley C. 1957. Folklore in the works of Janice Holt Giles. Kentucky Historical
Society Register 55.330-37. [Kentucky]. Includes brief comments on similes.
Woodson,
Anthony. 1925. Kentucky similes. Kentucky Folklore Bulletin, pp. 8-11.
Classification of more than hundred similes based on comparisons to vegetables,
animals, and minerals.
IX.
LITERARY DIALECT
Blair,
Walter, and Raven I. McDavid, Jr. 1983. The mirth of a nation: America's
great dialect humor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Anthology of 19th-century dialect fiction writers; includes "Linguistic
Note" (pp. 279-83) by McDavid explaining editorial alteration of dialect
to make stories more readable. Reviews:K. B. Harder. 1983. Tennessee Folklore
Society Bulletin 49.47;R. Higgs. 1983. Appalachian Journal 10.379-85;M.
Dunne. 1984. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics Review 8.74-75;L. Pederson.
1984. Journal of English Linguistics 17.97-102;R. B. Shulman. 1984. American
Speech 59.365-67.
Boykin,
Carol. 1965. Sut's speech: the dialect of a 'nat'ral borned mountaineer.
The Lovingood Papers 4.36-42. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
Reviews arguments over authenticity and purposes of George Washington Harris'
portrayal of Sut Lovingood's speech and analyzes Harris' use of spelling
to represent dialect pronunciation and Harris' use of dialect grammar and
local terms and figurs of speech.
Boykin,
Carol D. 1966. A study of the phonology, morphology, and vocabulary
of George Washington Harris' Sut Lovingood yarns. Knoxville:
University of Tennessee thesis. v + 71 pp. Thorough study of dialect patterns
in Harris' fiction; says Harris was "careful, accurate craftsman" in rendering
East Tennessee dialect and indulged in eye dialect much less than his contemporaries.
Clarke,
Mary Washington. 1960. Folklore of the Cumberlands as reflected in the
writings of Jesse Stuart. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania dissertation.
Clarke,
Mary Washington. 1963. As Jesse Stuart heard it in Kentucky. Kentucky Folklore
Record 9.85-86. Folk expressions in Stuart's writings.
Curtis,
Jay L. 1942. The dialect writing of Charles Egbert Craddock in the light
of the author's background. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina thesis.
Dunn,
Durwood. 1979. Mary Noialles Murfree: a reappraisal. Appalachian Journal
6.197-206. P. 201, discusses early critical reception of author's
portrayal of mountain speech.
Edwards,
Dorothy E. 1935. The dialect of the southern highlander as recorded in
North Carolina novels. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester thesis. Discussion
of Olive Dargon, Paul Green, DuBose Heyward.
Hall,
Wade. 1970. "The truth is funny": a study of Jesse Stuart's humor. Eric
Document 048 250. 79 pp. Also appears in Indiana English Journal 5.2-4.
Examines ways Stuart uses material from his own life and observations as
subject matter in his fiction, and focuses on Stuart's use of dialect and
natural metaphors of folk speech.
Inge,
M. Thomas. 1977. The Appalachian backgrounds of Billy de Beck's Snuffy
Smith. Appalachian Journal 4.120-32. Pp. 122-23, discusses George
Washington Harris as primary source of de Beck portrayal of Snuffy
Smith's speech.
Landrum,
Louise M. 1930. A study of Kentucky mountain dialect based on Lucy Furman's
Quare
Women. Lexington: University of Kentucky thesis. 74 pp. [Knott
County]. Study of peculiarities of speech of East Kentucky mountains.
McClure,
Paul E. 1979. Dialectal variation in the work of Harry Stillwell Edwards.
Abstract in Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 11.3.6. Says McClure
portrays many different types of dialects in his fiction.
Mitchell,
Ruth D. 1963. A study of Smoky Mountain regional speech as used in Lanier's
Tiger
Lilies. Columbia: University of South Carolina thesis. 117 pp. Detailed
analysis of phonology, vocabulary, and grammar used in Lanier's story
set in East Tennessee and comparison of findings with linguistic research
of Joseph Hall, Lester Berrey, Horace Kephart, James Tidwell, and linguistic
studies.
Nickell,
Joe. 1984. Hillbilly talk: Southern Appalachian speech as literary dialect
in the writings of Mary Noailles Murfree. Appalachian Heritage 12.3.37-45.
Schrock,
Earl F. Jr. 1971. An examination of the dialect in This Day and
Time. Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 37.31-39. [Sullivan County,
Tennessee]. Examines validity of
representation
of dialect in Anne Armstrong's novel by comparing lexical and grammatical
features to author's own ongoing research in area in 1970s. Reprinted in
R. J. Higgs, and Ambrose N. Manning, eds. 1977. Voices from the hills:
selected readings of Southern Appalachia, 460-73. New York: Ungar.
Snyder,
Bob. 1978. Colonial mimesis and the Appalachian renascence. Appalachian
Journal 5.340-49. Pp. 346-47, says liveliness and freshness of Appalachian
writers comes from these qualities in the region's speech patterns.
Williams,
Cratis D. 1975-76. The southern mountaineer in fact and fiction. Appalachian
Journal 3.8-61,100-62,186-261,334-92. Pp. 101-02, discusses James Hall's
handling of dialect in Harpe's Head: a Legend of Kentucky and Carroline
M. S. Kirkland's handling of dialect in his A New Home--Who'll Follow-
or, Glimpses of Western Life.
Wilson,
George P. 1961. Lois Lenski's use of regional speech. North Carolina Folklore
9.2.1-3. Defends North Carolina regional novelist's use of dialect in her
children's novels.
Woody,
Lester G. 1980. On dialect and style in the work of some Appalachian writers.
Abstract in Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 12.3.8. Details
how treatment of mountain dialect by Apppalachian writers has evolved
since mid-19th century, when extreme eye dialect was prevalent, to
present.
X.
LANGUAGE ATTITUDES AND SPEECH PERCEPTION
Coleman,
William L. 1978. Sociolinguistic aspects of language attitudes towards
Southern American English. Abstract in Newsletter of the American
Dialect Society 11.1.12. [250 adults, North Carolina]. Measures attitudes
toward nonstandard Southern, standard Southern, and "Network English"
with respect to sex of speaker and sex, education, and age of judge.
XI.
SPEECH ACT AND STYLE
Alderman,
Pat. 1972. Mountain hollerin. In the shadow of Big Bald: about the Appalachians
and their people, p. 64. Jonesboro, TN: Tri-Cities Press.
Krapp,
George Philip. 1925. [Rhetoric of Kentucky]. The English language in America,
vol. 2, pp. 297-306. New York: Ungar. Discusses development of folk
tradition of exuberant, exaggerated, and picturesque style in Kentucky
and Old Southwest region in first half of 19th century.
Rosenberg,
Bruce A. 1970. The art of the American folk preacher. New York: Oxford
University Press. Based on fieldwork in North Carolina, Virginia,
Kentucky, and California.
Stewart,
Kathleen Claire. 1987. Narrative Appalachia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
dissertation. Abstract in DAI 48.429A.
XII.
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Goehring,
Eleanor E. 1982. Speech, proverbs, and names. Tennessee folk culture: an
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Kennedy,
Arthur G. 1927. American sectional dialects. Bibliography of writings
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Lee,
Ann Morton. 1980. An annotated bibliography of southern mountain speech.
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Pederson,
Lee. 1968. An annotated bibliography of Southern states. Atlanta: Southeastern
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