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The English Language in Canada The English Language in Canada Note: The references to volumes containing articles are to be found in the book Hickey, Raymond 2014. A Dictionary of Varieties of English. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell which is available in our library. Avis, Walter S. et al. (eds) 1967. A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Toronto: Gage. Avis, Walter S. 1973. ‘The English language in Canada’, in: Thomas Sebeok (ed.) Current Trends in Linguistics. Vol. 10.1. The Hague: Mouton, pp. 40-74. Avis, Walter S. & A. M. Kinloch 1977. Writings on Canadian English, 1792-1975: An Annotated Bibliography. Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside. Barber, Katherine 1998. The Canadian Oxford Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Bloomfield, Morton W. 1948. ‘Canadian English and its relation to eighteenth century American speech’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 47: 59-66. Boberg, Charles 2004. ‘Ethnic patterns in the phonetics of Montreal English’, Journal of Sociolinguistics 8.4: 538-568. Boberg, Charles 2008. ‘English in Canada: phonology’, in: [1] Schneider (ed.), pp. 144-160. Boberg, Charles 2008. ‘Regional phonetic differentiation in Standard Canadian English’, Journal of English Linguistics 36.2: 129-154. Boberg, Charles 2010. The English Language in Canada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Boberg, Charles 2012 ‘Standard Canadian English’, in: [1.3] Hickey (ed.), pp. 159-178. Chambers, J. K. 1973. ‘Canadian raising’, Canadian Journal of Linguistics 18.2: 113-135. Chambers, J. K. 1998. ‘English: Canadian varieties’, in: Edwards (ed.), pp. 252-272. Chambers, J. K. 2004. ‘“Canadian Dainty”. The rise and decline of Briticisms in Canada’, in: [10.2] Hickey (ed.), pp. 224-241. Chambers, J. K. (ed.) 1975. Canadian English. Origins and Structures. Toronto: Methuen. Clarke, Sandra, Ford Elms & Amani Youssef 1995. ‘The third dialect of English: Some Canadian evidence’, Language Variation and Change 7: 209-228. Clarke, Sandra (ed.) 1993. Focus on Canada. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Dollinger, Stefan 2008. New-Dialect Formation in Canada. Evidence from the English Modal Auxiliaries. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Dollinger, Stefan & Luanne von Schneidemesser 2011. ‘Canadianism, Americanism, North Americanism? A Comparison of DARE and DCHP’, American Speech 86.2: 115-151. Dollinger, Stefan (ed.) 2011. A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles Online. Based on Avis et al. (1967). With the assistance of Laurel J. Brinton and Margery Fee. (Online dictionary) Raymond Hickey Reference Guide Page 2 of 4 http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sdollinger/dchp2.htm. Dollinger, Stefan and Sandra Clarke (eds.) 2012 Canadian English: Autonomy and Homogeneity. Special issue of World Englishes, Vol. 31.4. Edwards, John (ed.) 1998. Language in Canada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hoffman, Michol F. and James A. Walker 2010. ‘Ethnolects and the city: Ethnic orientation and linguistic variation in Toronto English’, Language Variation and Change 22: 37-67. McConnell, R. E. 1979. Our Own Voice. Canadian English and How it is Studied. Toronto: Gage. McDavid, Raven I. Jr. 1981. ‘Webster, Mencken, and Avis: Spokesmen for linguistic autonomy’, Canadian Journal of Linguistics 26: 118-25. Orkin, Mark M. 1971. Speaking Canadian English. An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Scargill, M. H. 1977. A Short History of Canadian English. Victoria, British Columbia: Sono Nis Press. Tagliamonte, Sali A. & Alexandra D’Arcy 2007. ‘The modals of obligation/necessity in Canadian perspective’, English World-Wide 28.1: 47-87. Relationship to American English Boberg, Charles 2000. ‘Geolinguistic diffusion and the U.S.-Canada Border’, Language Variation and Change 12.1: 1-24. Clarke, Sandra 1993. ‘The Americanization of Canadian pronunciation: A survey of palatal glide usage’, in: [5.2] Clarke (ed.), pp. 85-108. Woods, Howard B. 1993. ‘A synchronic study of English spoken in Ottawa: Is Canadian English becoming more American?’, in: [5.2] Clarke (ed.), pp. 151-178. Toronto Bednarek, Adam 2009. Studies in Canadian English: Lexical Variation in Toronto. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Leon, P. R. & P. Martin (eds) 1979. Toronto English. Montreal: Didier. Ottawa Valley Pringle, Ian & Enoch Padolsky 1981. ‘The Irish heritage of the English of the Ottawa Valley’, English Studies in Canada 7: 338-352. Pringle, Ian & Enoch Padolsky 1983. ‘The linguistic survey of the Ottawa Valley’, American Speech 58: 325-344. Woods, Howard B. 1986. The Ottawa Survey of Canadian English. Montreal: Didier. Quebec English Chambers, J. K. & Troy Heisler 1999. ‘Dialect topography of Quebec City English’, Canadian Journal of Linguistics 44: 23-48. Walker, James A. 2007. ‘“There’s bears back there”: Plural existentials and Raymond Hickey Reference Guide Page 3 of 4 vernacular universals in (Quebec) English’, English World-Wide 28.2: 147-166. Montreal Boberg, Charles 2004. ‘The dialect topography of Montreal’, English World-Wide 25.2: 171-198. Boberg, Charles 2005. ‘The Canadian shift in Montreal’, Language Variation and Change 17.2: 133-154. Nova Scotia Falk, Lilian & Margaret Harry (ed.) 1999. The English Language in Nova Scotia. Lockeport, Nova Scotia: Roseway Publishing. Prince Edward Island Pratt, T. K. 1988. Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Newfoundland Clarke, Sandra 2004. ‘The legacy of British and Irish English in Newfoundland’, in: [10.2] Hickey (ed.), pp. 242-261. Clarke, Sandra 2008a. ‘Newfoundland English: phonology’, in: [1] Schneider (ed.), pp. 161-180. Clarke, Sandra 2008b. ‘Newfoundland English: morphology and syntax’, in: [1] Schneider (ed.), pp. 492-509. Clarke, Sandra 2010. Newfoundland English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Hickey, Raymond 2002. ‘The Atlantic edge. The relationship between Irish English and Newfoundland English’, English World-Wide 23.2: 281-314. Kirwin, William J. 2001. ‘Newfoundland English’, in Algeo (ed.), pp. 441-455. Kirwin, William J. & Robert Hollett 1986. ‘The West Country and Newfoundland: Some SED evidence’, Journal of English Linguistics 19.2: 222-239. Mannion, John J. (ed.) 1977. The Peopling of Newfoundland. Essays in Historical Geography. St. John’s, Newfoundland: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Paddock, Harold (ed.) 1982. Languages in Newfoundland and Labrador. Second edition. St. John’s, Newfoundland: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Story, George, William Kirwin & John D. A. Widdowson (eds) 1990 [1982]. Dictionary of Newfoundland English. Second edition with supplement. Toronto. Available online at: http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/. Bungi Gold, Elaine 2009. ‘The case of Bungi: Evidence for vernacular universals’, in: [1] Filppula, Klemola & Paulasto (eds), pp. 163-176. Raymond Hickey Reference Guide Page 4 of 4.
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