Dialect Change and Maintenance on the Outer Banks

by Natalie Schilling-Estes and Walt Wolfram

This is a socio-linguistic study of the two small, insular societies of North Carolina's Ocracoke and Harkers Islands. Features examined of these island dialects include subject-verb concord, weren't-regulization, and the complex relationship between southern and Outer Banks vowels.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817309535
• ISBN13: 9780817309534
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"