The Atlas of North American English provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. The Atlas re-defines the regional dialects of American English on the basis of sound changes active in the 1990s and draws new boundaries reflecting those changes. It is based on a telephone survey of 762 local speakers, representing all the urbanized areas of North America.
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William Labov, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg, Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, Book and CD ROM edition (Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005).
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2005