Charles Boberg
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Charles Boberg's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
- Masters Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Boberg is an academic specializing in sociolinguistics, particularly North American English. He is an associate professor of linguistics at McGill University in Montreal. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania under William Labov, and later collaborated with him and Sharon Ash in the preparation of The Atlas of North American English, published by De Gruyter in 2006. Boberg has been consulted on matters of national security because of his expertise in identifying regional dialects and vocabulary patterns of North American English.
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- The atlas of North American English : phonetics, phonology and sound change : a multimedia reference tool (2006) (757)
- The Atlas Of North American English (2005) (362)
- Regional Phonetic Differentiation in Standard Canadian English (2008) (113)
- Inherent variability and the obligatory contour principle (1997) (107)
- The Canadian shift in Montreal (2005) (101)
- Geolinguistic diffusion and the U.S.–Canada border (2000) (95)
- Ethnic patterns in the phonetics of Montreal English (2004) (94)
- The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis (2010) (75)
- REAL AND APPARENT TIME IN LANGUAGE CHANGE: LATE ADOPTION OF CHANGES IN MONTREAL ENGLISH (2004) (61)
- The Phonological Status of Western New England (2001) (55)
- A Closer Look at the Short Front Vowel Shift in Canada (2019) (39)
- Short-a in Cincinnati (2000) (38)
- The North American Regional Vocabulary Survey: New variables and methods in the study of north American English (2005) (31)
- Reshaping the Vowel System: An Index of Phonetic Innovation in Canadian English (2011) (27)
- The Attitudinal Component of Variation in American English Foreign (a) Nativization (1999) (25)
- The emergence of a new phoneme: Foreign (a) in Canadian English (2009) (24)
- English as a Minority Language in Quebec. (2012) (21)
- The English Language in Canada: Index (2010) (21)
- The Reversal of a Sound Change in Cincinnati (1996) (17)
- The Dialect Topography of Montreal (2004) (15)
- PHONOLOGICAL CHANGE IN CINCINNATI (2007) (15)
- Foreign (a) in North American English: Variation and Change in Loan Phonology (2020) (14)
- Diva Diction (2020) (14)
- Describing Spoken English: An Introduction (2000) (12)
- Variation and change in the nativization of foreign (a) in English (1997) (11)
- Surveys: e Use of Written Questionnaires in Sociolinguistics (2013) (8)
- Ethnic divergence in Montreal English (2014) (8)
- 3. The North American Low-Back-Merger Shift: A Continental Sound Change (2019) (6)
- The obligatory contour principle and sociolinguistic variation (1994) (6)
- Archival Data on Earlier Canadian English (2017) (5)
- The dialects of North American English (2006) (5)
- North American English (2015) (4)
- New York City English in FilmPhonological Change in Reel Time (2018) (4)
- Ethnic dialects in North American English (2012) (3)
- Phonetic Cues in the Evaluation of Gay Male Speech in Canadian English and Québec French (2003) (3)
- English in the Gaspé region of Quebec (2015) (3)
- The fronting of back upgliding vowels (2006) (3)
- Standards of English: Standard Canadian English (2012) (3)
- Newspaper Dialectology: Harnessing the Power of the Mass Media to Study Canadian English (2016) (2)
- The restoration of post-vocalic /r/ (2006) (1)
- Phonological Atlas of North America. Prepared by William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg, David Bowie, Atissa Banuazizi, Carol Orr, Anita Henderson, Joyce Albergottie, and Tom Maciejewski. http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ home.html (1998) (1)
- Regional variation in the allophones of CANADIAN ENGLISH (2011) (1)
- Dialects of North American English (2017) (1)
- Variation in the nativization of foreign [a] in English (1997) (1)
- Fact or opinion: A sociolinguistic view of native-speaker intuitions as evidence in linguistics (2002) (1)
- New York City and the Mid-Atlantic states (2006) (1)
- The vowels of North American English: Maps of natural breaks in F1 and F2 (2006) (1)
- Index of subjects, city names, and persons (2006) (0)
- Nearly completed mergers (2006) (0)
- Sampling and field methods (2006) (0)
- The English Language in Canada: References (2010) (0)
- The English Language in Canada: Variation and change in the phonetics of Canadian English (2010) (0)
- Phonological Change in Cincinatti (1995) (0)
- The short-a and short-o configurations (2006) (0)
- The English Language in Canada: The principal features of Canadian English in comparative perspective (2010) (0)
- The English Language in Canada: The establishment and growth of Canada's English-speaking population (2010) (0)
- Principles of chain shifting and mergers (2006) (0)
- The English Language in Canada: Summary and future directions (2010) (0)
- Focus on the USA. Edited by Edgar W. Schneider (1999) (0)
- The Persistence of Ethnic Identity in Montreal English (2009) (0)
- The English Language in Canada: English in the Canadian context (2010) (0)
- The North American English vowel system (2006) (0)
- Review of Language variety in the South revisited (2000) (0)
- Lexical and grammatical maps (2006) (0)
- English in Canada: phonology (2020) (0)
- Review of “Focus on South Africa” by Vivian de Klerk (ed.) (2000) (0)
- Peter Auer, Frans Hinskens & Paul Kerswill (eds.), Dialect change: Convergence and divergence in European languages . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 415. Hb $75.00. (2008) (0)
- The construction of isoglosses (2006) (0)
- Methods of acoustic analysis (2006) (0)
- Review of “The Handbook of Language Variation and Change” by J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.) (2003) (0)
- The English Language in Canada: Variation and change in the vocabulary of Canadian English (2010) (0)
- North American mergers in progress (2006) (0)
- Thomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon, eds. 2006. Language Variation and Change in the American Midland (2007) (0)
- 3. Borders in North American English (2014) (0)
- The findings of the Atlas of North American English: An overview (2006) (0)
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