Raven I. McDavid Jr.
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Raven Ioor McDavid Jr. was an American linguist who specialized in dialectology. His works include The Structure of American English, Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States, The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States , and the 1963 single-volume edition of H. L. Mencken's The American Language.
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- Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1950) (334)
- The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States : based upon the collections of the linguistic atlas of the Eastern United States (1963) (225)
- The structure of American English. (1958) (201)
- The Relationship of the Speech of American Negroes to the Speech of Whites (1951) (87)
- Postvocalic /-r/ in South Carolina: A Social Analysis (1948) (66)
- Lexicography in English (1973) (65)
- The Speech of Australian Adolescents (1977) (62)
- Words and Ways of American English (1953) (26)
- Preview: the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (1979) (26)
- The Position of the Charleston Dialect (1955) (25)
- The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States; Supplement II (1947) (23)
- Varieties of American English (1980) (21)
- Ain't I and Aren't I (1941) (19)
- h before Semivowels in the Eastern United States (1952) (18)
- Dialect Geography and Social Science Problems (1946) (18)
- American Social Dialects. (1965) (17)
- The Mirth of a Nation: America's Great Dialect Humor (1983) (15)
- Sense and Nonsense About American Dialects* (1966) (14)
- Dialects in culture : essays in general dialectology (1979) (12)
- Studies in linguistics in honor of Raven I. McDavid, Jr (1972) (11)
- The Speech of New York City (1984) (11)
- Grammatical Differences in the North Central States (1960) (10)
- Linguistic Geograpllic and Toponymic Research (1958) (10)
- Dimensions of Usage and Dictionary Labeling (1984) (8)
- Midland and Canadian Words in Upstate New York (1951) (8)
- Historical, Regional, and Social Variation (1967) (8)
- Tape Recording in Dialect Geography A Cautionary Note (1957) (7)
- SOME SOCIAL DIFFERENCES IN PRONUNCIATION1 (1952) (6)
- 'Shivaree': An Example of Cultural Diffusion (1949) (6)
- Northwestern Ohio: A Transition Area (1950) (6)
- Low-Back Vowels in Providence: a Note in Structural Dialectology (1981) (6)
- The English Language in the United States (1973) (6)
- Linguistic Atlas of the North-Central States (1977) (5)
- Dialect Labels In the Merriam Third (1967) (5)
- Aphaeresis in New England (1973) (5)
- Orbis; Bulletin International de Documentation Linguistique. (1953) (4)
- Planning the Grid (1971) (4)
- Low-Back Vowels in the South Carolina Piedmont (1940) (4)
- A study in ethnolinguistics (1960) (3)
- False Scents and Cold Trails: the Pre-Publication Criticism of the Merriam Third (1971) (3)
- Social Differences in White Speech (1979) (3)
- Webster, Mencken, and Avis: Spokesmen for Linguistic Autonomy (1981) (3)
- Teaching Standard English to Non-Standard Speakers. (1963) (3)
- Variations in Standard American English. (1968) (3)
- 8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina (1977) (3)
- Canadian English@@@Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada (1971) (3)
- Eliciting: Direct, Indirect, and Oblique (1985) (3)
- Linguistic Geography in Canada: An Introduction (1954) (3)
- DIALECT DIFFERENCES AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCES IN AN URBAN SOCIETY (1985) (3)
- A Corpus of English Conversation. Edited by Jan Svartvik and Randolph Quirk. Lund Studies in English 56. Lund, Sweden: C. W. L. Gleerup, 1980, pp. 893 (1983) (3)
- The late unpleasantness: Folk names for the Civil War (1969) (3)
- [no title] (1967) (2)
- Linguistic geography and language change (1990) (2)
- Two Studies of Dialects of English (1968) (2)
- Derivatives of Middle English [o:] in the South Atlantic area (1949) (2)
- Notes on the Pronunciation of American (1977) (2)
- Webster's third new international dictionary a symposium (1962) (2)
- Varieties of American English : essays (1981) (2)
- SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC GEOGRAPHY (1973) (2)
- A Short History of Canadian English. M. H. Scargill. Victoria, B. C.: Sono Nis Press, 1977, pp. 70. Our Own Voice: Canadian English and How it is Studied. Ruth E. McConnell. Toronto: Gage, pp. x + 272 + H48, 1979 (1980) (2)
- The Second Round in Dialectology or North American English (1960) (2)
- Poor Whites and Rustics (1974) (2)
- South Carolina County Names: Unreconstructed Individualism1 (1978) (2)
- A Citadel Glossary (1939) (2)
- Notes on the Pronunciation of Ohio (1975) (2)
- Grist from the Atlas Mill (1949) (1)
- At Points in Time (1973) (1)
- Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage. Ed. William Morris and Mary Morris. New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London: Harper and Row, 1975. Pp. xxii + 650 (1977) (1)
- Dialects in culture (1979) (1)
- INTUITIVE RULES AND FACTUAL EVIDENCE: /-sp, -st, -sk/ plus [-z] (1978) (1)
- Names Not on the Map (1985) (1)
- Inside the "Oxford English Dictionary" (1980) (1)
- The Folk Vocabulary of Eastern Kentucky. (1973) (1)
- Atlas of English Sounds. Eduard Kolb, with the help of Beat Glauser, Willy Elmer, and Peter Stamm. Bern: A. Francke Verlag, 1979, pp. 12 + 323 + [2] (1981) (1)
- LINGUISTICS: The Social Stratification of English in New York City. William Labov (1968) (1)
- Slang and its Analogues. J. S. Farmer and W. E. Henley. 7 vols. 1890-1904. One volume reprint (four pages on one, original pagination retained), with an introduction by Theodore M. Bernstein. New York: Arno Press, Inc., 1970. $5.85 (1973) (1)
- The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland: Scots Section. Ed. with an introduction by J. Y. Mather and H. H. Speitel. Vol. I, pp. 429; Vol. II, pp. 292. Guildford: Biddles; New Haven: Archon Books, 1975, 1977 (1978) (1)
- The Gathering and Presentation of Data (1978) (1)
- Miscellaneous Notes on Recent Articles (1943) (1)
- Application of the linguistic atlas method to dialect study in the South‐Central Area (1949) (1)
- A Concise Dictionary of the American Language (1956) (1)
- David Maurer (1905-1981): A Memoir (1982) (1)
- Book Review:La Dialectologie: Apercu historique et methodes d'enquetes linguistiques Sever Pop (1955) (1)
- The Taste of Yiddish. Lillian Mermin Feinsilver. Pp. 437. Cranburg, New Jersey: Thomas Yoseloff, 1970 (1973) (0)
- Festschrift in Honor o/ Virgil J. Vogel. Ed. by Edward Callary. DeKalb, IL: Illinois Name Society. 1985. x + 239 (1986) (0)
- Sandhi-Alternation of Attributive Genitives in Milton’s Works (1972) (0)
- The structure of American English : workbook (1980) (0)
- Some Notes on Maryland and Baltimore (1980) (0)
- Other: Preparing to Teach the Disadvantaged: Approaches to Teacher Education. BRUCE W. TUCKMAN and JOHN L. O'BRIAN (1972) (0)
- LINGUISTICS: The Miracle of Language. Charlton Laird (1955) (0)
- Linguistics: The Study of Social Dialects in American English. Walt Wolfram and Ralph W. Fasold (1977) (0)
- English Dialectology: An Introduction. By Lawrence M. Davis. University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1983. xii + 151 (1984) (0)
- The 1961 Conference on Dialectology (1963) (0)
- Book Review:Letters of Noah Webster Harry Warfel, Noah Webster (1955) (0)
- Linguistics and the Related Disciplines (1955) (0)
- Book Review:Class, Codes, and Control. Vol. 1: Theoretical Studies toward a Sociology of Language Basil Bernstein (1974) (0)
- An Introduction to Transformational Grammars. Emmon Bach (1967) (0)
- Sociolinguistic Studies@@@Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular@@@Sociolinguistic Patterns (1979) (0)
- In Memoriam Jess Stein (1914-1984) (1984) (0)
- Book Review:A Phonology and Prosody of Modern English Hans Kurath (1966) (0)
- Melanesian Pidgin English: Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary@@@Melanesian Pidgin Phrase-Book and Vocabulary (1944) (0)
- Chapter III: The Sociology of Language (1970) (0)
- Book Review:Language Change and Linguistic Reconstruction Henry M. Hoenigswald (1962) (0)
- Report of the Lexicography Committee (1969) (0)
- The English Can't Make up Their Mind (1969) (0)
- An Examination of the Attitudes of the NCTE Toward Language: An Analysis of the Development of Ideas on Language Study as Reported in Journal Articles Published by NCTE. NCTE Research Report No. 4. (1965) (0)
- Fries and linguistic geography (1985) (0)
- Linguistic Science in Popular Form (1950) (0)
- A Garland of Tributes@@@Language Form and Linguistic Variation: Papers Dedicated to Angus McIntosh (1984) (0)
- ON A HIERARCHY OF VALUES: THE CLINICIAN AND THE DIALECTOLOGIST (1970) (0)
- Place Names of the English-Speaking World by C. M. Matthews (1973) (0)
- Florida Topographic Terms (1955) (0)
- Provincial Sayings and Regional Distributions (1943) (0)
- The sound system of a West Midland dialect: Kniveton, Derbyshire (1984) (0)
- Antipodean Speech@@@The English Language in Australia and New Zealand (1980) (0)
- Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Alive and Prospering (1982) (0)
- The Treasure of Our Tongue: The Story of English from Its Obscure Beginnings to Its Present Eminence as the Most Widely Spoken Language on Earth by Lincoln Barnett (1966) (0)
- Investigating Linguistic Acceptability. Randolph Quirk and Jan Svartvik (1968) (0)
- Book Review:A Survey of Verb Forms in the Eastern United States E. Bagby Atwood (1954) (0)
- Book Review:Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest Harold B. Allen (1978) (0)
- West Virginia Surnames@@@West Virginia Surnames: The Pioneers (1974) (0)
- A dictionary of modern American and British English on a contrastive basis , Givi Zviadadze. Enlarged and revised ed. Pp. 519. Tbilisi State University Publishers, Georgia, USSR, 1973 (1976) (0)
- LINGUISTICS: Linguistic Change in Present‐Day English. Charles Barber (1967) (0)
- The Tape-Recorded Interview: A Manual for Field Workers in Folklore and Oral History. By Edward D. Ives. Revised and enlarged edition. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2nd Printing, 1984. xiv + 130 (1985) (0)
- Americans speaking : a pamphlet to accompany the NCTE dialect recording (1967) (0)
- OPENING REMARKS (1973) (0)
- Social Dialects and Professional Responsibility. (1969) (0)
- Retrospect (1983) (0)
- LINGUISTICS: The Norwegian Language in America: A Study in Bilingual Behavior. Einar Haugen (1955) (0)
- The Levys of New Orleans: An Old Myth and a New Problem (1964) (0)
- A la Recherche du Dialect Humor Perdu@@@The Mirth of a Nation: America's Great Dialect Humor (1984) (0)
- II. Linguistic Geography (1984) (0)
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