Rural Dialectology

Rural Dialectology is a branch of dialectology that investigates the linguistic features, variation, and change characteristic of speech communities in rural areas, distinguished from urban dialectology by its focus on geographically peripheral, often less socially heterogeneous, and traditionally rooted vernaculars.

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2017–2026

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Accent GeographyAgrarian Speech CommunitiesDialect Corpus CompilationFieldwork Methods In DialectologyFolk DialectologyNongradience In Dialect ContinuumsRegional Speech PatternsRural Dialect SurveysRural Language MaintenanceRural Speech Networks

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Linguistic change and diffusion: description and explanation in sociolinguistic dialect geography

Peter Trudgill · Language in Society · 1974 · 591 citations

Language Studies, Geography, Linguistics +17

Nonmainstream Dialect Use and Specific Language Impairment

Janna B. Oetting, Janet L. McDonald · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research · 2001 · 183 citations

Education, Linguistics, Speech-language Pathology +17

<b>The linguistic atlas of the upper Midwest</b> . By Harold B. Allen. 3 vols. [Minneapolis:] University of Minnesota Press, 1973, 1975, 1976. Pp. xiii, 425; 92; xii, 362.

William Bright · Language · 1979 · 174 citations

Language Studies, Human Geography, Linguistics +14

A rural/metropolitan split in the speech of Texas Anglos

Erik R. Thomas · Language Variation and Change · 1997 · 144 citations

Language Studies, Demography, Linguistics +16

Methods for Characterizing Participants' Nonmainstream Dialect Use in Child Language Research

Janna B. Oetting, Janet L. McDonald · Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research · 2002 · 137 citations

Language Studies, Human Development, Linguistics +8

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Kirk Hazen
West Virginia University, United States
3 publications · 152 citations
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Rania Habib
Syracuse University, United States
2 publications · 32 citations
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Daniel Ziblatt
Harvard University, United States
2 publications · 57 citations
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Daniel Bischof
Aarhus University, Denmark
2 publications · 57 citations
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Janet L. McDonald
Louisiana State University, United States
2 publications · 320 citations
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Language
4 publications · 294 citations
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Language Variation and Change
4 publications · 221 citations
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American Speech
3 publications · 95 citations
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
2 publications · 51 citations
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International Journal of American Linguistics
2 publications · 27 citations
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