Pittsburgh Speech and Pittsburghese

by Daniel Baumgardt, Scott Kiesling, Barbara Johnstone, et al.

Linguists have sporadically noted peculiarities of pronunciation, lexis and morphosyntax in the speech of European Americans in the Pittsburgh area, and Pittsburgh speech, locally known as "Pittsburghese", has been a topic of discussion in the Pittsburgh area for decades. This variety has never before been systematically documented, however. The first and only scholarly book to describe Pittsburgh-area varieties of English, Pittsburgh Speech and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614512329
• ISBN13: 9781614512325
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary