https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/16 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in American Speech. daily 1 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 74, no. 3 (1999); Vol. 75 (2000) - vol. 79 (2004) Latest Articles: American Speech TWO Project MUSE® American Speech 1527-2133 0003-1283 Latest articles in American Speech. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177095 <p></p> Charles F. Meyer is professor of applied linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He is author of English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002) and coeditor (with Anne Curzan) of the Journal of English Linguistics.Daniel Long received his doctorate from Osaka University in 1995 and is currently associate professor of Japanese linguistics at Tokyo Metropolitan University, where he teaches language acquisition and sociolinguistics. He is the editor of Ogasawara-gasawara-gaku Kotohajime (An introduction to Ogasawara studies; Kagoshima: Nanposhinsha, 2002) and coeditor of Ogasawara Handobukku (Ogasawara handbook; with Makoto Inaba, Kagoshima: Nanposhinsha, 2004) ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177103">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/16/image/coversmall Contributors' Column 2005-01-20 text/html en-US Contributors' Column 2005-01-20 2005 TWO Project MUSE® 3680 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2005-01-20 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177098 <p></p> The terms abbreviation, initialism, and acronym have not been used consistently by scholars. For ex am ple, Quirk et al. (1985) use acronym to refer to any shortening formed from the initial letters of each word in the source phrase and do not distinguish between those pronounced letter by letter or as a word. Cannon (1989) uses initialism to refer to these shortenings and distinguishes between those pronounced letter by letter (abbreviation) or as a word (acronym). Here I have adopted the labels used by Algeo (1991) and Crystal (2003), with abbreviation used as the general term to refer to any shortened form used to stand in for a word or phrase.Cannon (1989, 116) actually reports a figure of 16% for initialisms ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177103">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/16/image/coversmall Why Is It the CIA But Not *the NASA ? Acronyms, Initialisms, and Definite Descriptions 2005-01-20 text/html en-US Why Is It the CIA But Not *the NASA ? Acronyms, Initialisms, and Definite Descriptions 2005-01-20 2005 TWO Project MUSE® 17785 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2005-01-20 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177101 <p></p> The bonin islands lie in the northern Pacific Ocean between mainland Japan, one thousand kilometers to the north, and the Northern Mariana Islands, the closest of which lies just a slightly greater distance to the south. The islands were uninhabited until 1830, when a small band of European men arrived with Polynesian men and women. In subsequent years, several dozen other men and women settled on the island. In any linguistic study of the Bonins, these settlers&#39; potential linguistic contributions should be considered because, although many left no offspring, they nonetheless made up the speech community in which island children were raised. Their languages were many and varied. Western Malayo-Polynesian languages ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177103">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/16/image/coversmall The Last Yankee in the Pacific: Eastern New England Phonology in the Bonin Islands 2005-01-20 text/html en-US The Last Yankee in the Pacific: Eastern New England Phonology in the Bonin Islands 2005-01-20 2005 TWO Project MUSE® 50626 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2005-01-20 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177102 <p></p> For information on the ICE project, see Greenbaum (1992) and the ICE Web site: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage//ice/index.htm.Also completed is the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE), which contains the writing of individuals learning English as a second language. Nineteen different language groups are represented in the corpus (see http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/fltr/germ/etan/cecl/Cecl-Projects/icle/icle.htm for details).See Nelson (1996) for further discussion of the design of ICE corpora.Because so few different newspapers were represented in ICE-East Africa, Jamaica, and Singapore, it was not possible to measure the relative frequency of pseudotitles in these ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177103">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/16/image/coversmall ADS Anual Lecture: Can You Really Study Language Variation in Linguistic Corpora? 2005-01-20 text/html en-US ADS Anual Lecture: Can You Really Study Language Variation in Linguistic Corpora? 2005-01-20 2005 TWO Project MUSE® 29474 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2005-01-20 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177103 <p></p> When Raven McDavid Jr. edited H. L. Mencken&#39;s compendious American Language into a single volume, one of the many pieces of new material that he added was on the subcultural language of the carnival:Carnival workers, and especially strong-joint or flat-joint operators [i.e., people who run games or booths that have been rigged to make winning difficult or impossible], have a more or less secret argot called ceazarney or alfalfa, which is based on phonetic distortion and cannot be represented in print without resort to a complex phonemic rendering. It is one of the few argots which are spoken with a deliberate attempt to deceive or to conceal meaning.Actually, the section of McDavid&#39;s abridgment from which we quote ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177103">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/16/image/coversmall The Life and Death of Carnie 2005-01-20 text/html en-US The Life and Death of Carnie 2005-01-20 2005 TWO Project MUSE® 91940 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2005-01-20