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Title:
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A Distributional Analysis of Rural Colorado English
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Author:
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Lamont Antieau
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Email:
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Homepage:
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http://sites.google.com/site/ldantieau/
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Degree Awarded:
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University of Georgia
, Linguistics Program
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Degree Date:
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2006
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Sociolinguistics
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Subject Language(s):
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English
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Director(s):
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William Kretzschmar
Marlyse Baptista
Diana Ranson
Lee Pederson
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Abstract:
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This dissertation describes a study in linguistic geography conducted in
Colorado using the methodology of the Linguistic Atlas of the Western
States. As such, the goals of this dissertation are threefold: 1) to
provide a description of Colorado English with respect to select lexical,
phonetic, and syntactic features; 2) to compare the results of work in
Colorado with previous work conducted in the eastern states as well as in
Colorado and other western states; and 3) to use inferential statistics to
show correlation between the distribution of specific linguistic variants
and the social characteristics of those informants who use these variants.
The major findings of this study include the observation that linguistic
variants are distributed according to a power law, that numerous variants
have statistically significant social correlates at all levels of the
grammar, and that the relative effect of social variables differs at each
linguistic level.
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