American Regional Dialects

American Regional Dialects
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Book Synopsis American Regional Dialects by : Craig M. Carver

Download or read book American Regional Dialects written by Craig M. Carver and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on some 2,000 dialect expressions, [this book] traces cultural and historical forces that have shaped these speech regions and given them their characteristic vocabularies."--Cover


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