American Speech: 1600 to the Present (1983)

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1983. 

Essays on folk, vernacular, and popular speech in the American Northeast and the Eastern Seaboard. Regional dialects, historical pronunciation and idiom, linguistic geography, methodological and source studies. Sample dialect reconstruction. 144 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, maps. Click here to view Table of Contents.