Augusta Survey
Augusta Survey
Director:
Michael Miller
Status of work:
Field work completed, audio tape.
Areas covered:
Augusta, Georgia and environs.
Nature of recordings:
Based on the questionnaire from LAGS, with additional questions and a reading passage, “My Eccentric Grandfather.” The data was collected in 1976-77, and includes 37 interviews. Not all of the audio tapes survive.
Archives:
The surviving original recordings are housed in the Special Collections repository of the Library, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602. Contact the Linguistic Atlas Project office for information about access to original materials.
Selected bibliography:
•Miller, Michael. 1999. Dynamics of a Sociolinguistic System: English Plural Formation in Augusta, Georgia. Ed. by Ronald Butters, William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., and Claiborne Rice. Journal of English Linguistics 27, number 3
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