The Handbook of Dialectology: (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)

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 essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry

Table of Contents:
List of Contributors viii Introduction 1 CHARLES BOBERG, JOHN NERBONNE, AND DOMINIC WATT Section 1: Theory (section editor: Dominic Watt) 1 Section Introduction DOMINIC WATT 1 Dialectology, Philology, and Historical Linguistics 23 RAYMOND HICKEY 2 The Dialect Dictionary 39 JACQUES VAN KEYMEULEN 3 Linguistic Atlases 57 WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR. 4 Structural Dialectology 73 MATTHEW J. GORDON 5 Dialectology and Formal Linguistic Theory: The Blind Man and the Lame 88 FRANS HINSKENS 6 Sociodialectology 106 TORE KRISTIANSEN 7 Dialectometry 123 HANS GOEBL 8 Dialect Contact and New Dialect Formation 143 DAVID BRITAIN 9 Dialect Change in Europe—Leveling and Convergence 159 PETER AUER 10 Perceptual Dialectology 177 DENNIS R. PRESTON 11 Dialect Intelligibility 204 CHARLOTTE GOOSKENS 12 Applied Dialectology: Dialect Coaching, Dialect Reduction, and Forensic Phonetics 219 DOMINIC WATT Section 2: Methods (section editor: John Nerbonne) 233 Section Introduction JOHN NERBONNE 13 Dialect Sampling Methods 241 RONALD MACAULAY 14 The Dialect Questionnaire 253 CARMEN LLAMAS 15 Written Dialect Surveys 268 J.K. CHAMBERS 16 Field Interviews in Dialectology 284 GUY BAILEY 17 Corpus‐Based Approaches to Dialect Study 300 BENEDIKT SZMRECSANYI AND LIESELOTTE ANDERWALD 18 Acoustic Phonetic Dialectology 314 ERIK R. THOMAS 19 Computational Dialectology 330 WILBERT HEERINGA AND JELENA PROKIĆ 20 Dialect Maps 348 STEFAN RABANUS 21 Identifying Regional Dialects in On‐Line Social Media 368 JACOB EISENSTEIN 22 Logistic Regression Analysis of Linguistic Data 384 JOHN C. PAOLILLO 23 Statistics for Aggregate Variationist Analyses 400 JOHN NERBONNE AND MARTIJN WIELING 24 Spatial Statistics for Dialectology 415 JACK GRIEVE Section 3: Data (section editor: Charles Boberg) 435 Section Introduction CHARLES BOBERG 25 Dialects of British and Southern Hemisphere English 439 KEVIN WATSON 26 Dialects of North American English 450 CHARLES BOBERG 27 Dialects of German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian Languages 462 SEBASTIAN KURSCHNER 28 Dialects of French 474 DAMIEN HALL 29 Dialects of Italy 486 TULLIO TELMON 30 Dialects of Spanish and Portuguese 498 John M. Lipski 31 Dialects of the Slavic Languages 510 VLADIMIR ZHOBOV AND RONELLE ALEXANDER 32 Dialects of Arabic 523 ENAM AL‐WER AND RUDOLF DE JONG 33 Dialects in the Indo‐Aryan Landscape 535 ASHWINI DEO 34 Dialects of Chinese 547 CHAOJU TANG 35 Dialects of Japanese 559 TAKUICHIRO ONISHI 36 Dialects of Malay/Indonesian 571 ALEXANDER ADELAAR Index 582

About the Author :
Charles Boberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His research focuses on variation and change in North American English, particularly Canadian English and accents in film and television. He is the author of The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis (2010) and a co-author of the Atlas of North American English (with William Labov and Sharon Ash, 2006). John Nerbonne worked at HP Labs, the German AI Center, and the University of Groningen, where he was head of Digital Humanities. He is currently an honorary professor in Freiburg. Nerbonne works in quantitative linguistics, using computational and statistical methods. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2002, and a Humboldt prize winner in 2013. Dominic Watt is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York, UK. His research interests are in forensic phonetics and linguistics, speech perception, sociophonetics, and language and identity studies. He is co-author of English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill, 2012), and co-editor of Language and Identities (with Carmen Llamas, 2010) and Language, Borders and Identity (2014).

Review :
"Dialectology, the study of how and why language varies from place to place, comes brilliantly to life with this comprehensive, state-of-the-art Handbook. Grounded in history yet filled with cutting-edge methodology, research findings and personal insights from top researchers in the field, this book gives scholars and students the ideal reference manual for studying and understanding dialects in the 21st century." Professor Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto, Canada "It's all here - an enormously helpful and brilliantly well-planned volume, by the world's very top dialectology researcher. The Handbook has everything that needs to be known about regional variations in language, including the history of its study, its manifestations,  its causes, and its consequences." Professor Peter Trudgill, University of East Anglia, UK "This timely volume comprises thirty six chapters written by leading exponents in the discipline, comprehensively covering in three excellent sections issues in  theory, method and data. It is a fine resource for anyone working on language variation, language history, or for those who require access to bodies of language data: indispensable for researchers and students alike." Professor Lesley Milroy, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan, USA