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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.   2000.
 
Articles Index
 
  1. Introduction  Joseph P. Pickett
  2. Editorial and Production Staff
  3. Special Contributors and Consultants
  4. The Usage Panel
  5. Regional Patterns of American Speech  Lee Pederson
    1. Social Forces and Dialect Development
    2. Early Modern English
    3. The Beginnings of American English
    4. Early American Evidence
    5. Native American Influences
    6. Loans from the European Languages
    7. The American Frontier
    8. The Evolution of Dialects in American English
    9. The Northern Pattern
    10. The Eastern Coastal Pattern
    11. Atlantic Coastal—Northern and Southern
    12. Gulf Coastal
    13. Interior Development
    14. The Midland Pattern
    15. North Midland
    16. South Midland
    17. The Southern Pattern
    18. The Western Pattern
    19. Inland Northern/Midland Influence
    20. The Influence of Bilingualism
    21. Contributions from African Languages
    22. The Influence of Social Dialects
    23. Outlook for American Regional Patterns
  6. Variation and Change in Our Living Language  John R. Rickford
    1. Change in Progress
    2. Rule Governance in Variation and Change
    3. Synchronic Variation
    4. Regional Variation
    5. Variation by Ethnicity and Social Class
    6. Other Kinds of Synchronic Variation
    7. Slang
  7. Usage in The American Heritage Dictionary  Geoffrey Nunberg
    1. Usage in This Dictionary
    2. The Scope of Coverage
 
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