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American Speech: 1600 to the Present

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife
Annual Proceedings
June 25 and 26, 1983

CONTENTS

Keynote Address
Dialect Areas of the Atlantic Seaboard
Raven I. McDavid, Jr.

SECTION I: WORD-LISTS AND TOPONYM STUDIES

The Folk Speech of Maine: Clues to Colonial English
Jacob Bennett

Regionalisms and Archaisms in Current Maine Place Names
Donald B. Sands

SECTION II: LINGUISTIC STUDIES OF PROBATE INVENTORIES AND COURT DOCUMENTS

Lost Vocabulary of Colonial Rhode Island
Celia Millward

Household Vernacular in Concord, Massachusetts, Probate Inventories: 1655–1800
Lisa H. Foote and Carol L. Haines

SECTION III: NEW ENGLAND PHONETIC WRITERS

The Speech of Jonathan Fisher (1768–1847) of Blue Hill, Maine
Raoul N. Smith

New England Phonetic Transcriptions before 1850: Ezekiel Rich and Henry Martyn Parkhurst
Falk S. Johnson

SECTION IV: LINGUISTIC STUDIES OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND DRAMA

Teague Talk; or, How to Impersonate a Stage Irishman in Five Lessons
Joyce Flynn

The Northeastern Urban Comedians’ Dialect and Mark Twain’s Vision
David E. E. Sloane

D. C. Johnston’s Pictorialization of Vernacular Humor in Jacksonian America
David Tatham

SECTION V: MUSEUM INTERPRETATIONS

Reconstructing an Early-Seventeenth-Century “American” Dialect
Leonard Travers

SECTION VI: NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bibliography of Folk and Vernacular Speech
Conference Program, American Speech
Abstracts of Conference Papers
Notes on Contributors