Bailey, Guy . 1997. When Did Southern American English Begin? In Englishes around theWorld: Vol. 1: General Studies, British Isles, North America: Studies in Honour of Manfred Görlach, edited by Edgar W. Schneider. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2.
Bailey, Guy , and Jan Tillery. 1996. The Persistence of Southern American English. Journal of English Linguistics24:308-321.
3.
Berni, Mary. 1995. The Distribution of æ in the American South. Master's thesis, University of Memphis.
4.
Boberg, Charles , and Stephanie M. Strassel. 2000. Short-a in Cincinnati: AChange in Progress. Journal of English Linguistics28:108-126.
5.
Bowie, David. 2000. The Effect of Geographic Mobility on the Retention of a Local Dialect. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
6.
Edelen, Vivian B. , Janie MacInnis, Moira Mahoney, and GretchenWilliams. 1976. Towns and Villages: Changes with Transportation. In Charles County, Maryland: A History: Bicentennial Edition, edited by Jack D. Brown, William A. Diggs, Gladys S. Jenkins, J. Karpiak, Elwood M. Leviner, Mary Clare Matthews, Janie MacInnis, Rona R. Schaepman, and Frederick Tilp. South Hackensack, NJ: Custombook.
7.
Hazen, Kirk . 2000. A Methodological Suggestion on Ungliding. American Speech75:221-224.
8.
Herold, Ruth . 1997. Solving the Actuation Problem: Merger and Immigration in Eastern Pennsylvania. Language Variation and Change9:165-189.
9.
Johnson, M. , and J. Karpiak. 1976. Agriculture: Still a Tobacco Economy. In Charles County, Maryland: A History: Bicentennial Edition, edited by Jack D. Brown, William A. Diggs, Gladys S. Jenkins, J. Karpiak, Elwood M. Leviner, Mary Clare Matthews, Janie MacInnis, Rona R. Schaepman, and Frederick Tilp. South Hackensack, NJ: Custombook.
10.
Kerswill, Paul . 1994. Babel in Buckinghamshire? Pre-School Children Acquiring Accent Features in the NewTown of MiltonKeynes. In NonstandardVarieties of Language: Papers from the Stockholm Symposium 11-13 April 1991, edited by Gunnel Melchers and Nils-Lennart Johannesson. Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International.
11.
Kerswill, Paul . 1995. Phonological Convergence in Dialect Contact: Evidence from Citation Forms. Language Variation and Change7:195-207.
12.
Kerswill, Paul . 1996a. Children, Adolescents, and Language Change. Language Variation and Change8:177-202.
13.
Kerswill, Paul . 1996b. MiltonKeynes and Dialect Levelling in South-Eastern British English. In English: History, Diversity and Change, edited by David Graddol, Dick Leith, and Joan Swan. London: Routledge (in association with Open University).
14.
Kerswill, Paul , and AnnWilliams. 1994. A New Dialect in a New City: Children's and Adults' Speech in Milton Keynes. Final Report to the Economic and Social Research Council.
15.
Kerswill, Paul , and AnnWilliams. 2000. Creating a New Town Koine: Children and Language Change in Milton Keynes. Language in Society29:65-115.
16.
Kretzschmar, William A., Jr. , Virginia G. McDavid, Theodore K. Lerud, and Ellen Johnson, eds. 1993. Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
17.
Kurath, Hans , and Raven I. McDavid, Jr.1961. The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
18.
Labov, William . 1990. The Intersection of Sex and Social Class in the Course of Linguistic Change. Language Variation and Change2:205-254.
19.
Labov, William . 2001. Principles of Linguistic Change: Vol. 2: Social Factors. Oxford, England: Blackwell.
20.
Lambert, Sage. 1995. The R-Full Truth of the Matter: An Analysis of the Constriction of in Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana. Master's thesis, University of Memphis.
21.
Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States. 2000. LAMSAS Database for ‘Ireland'[Online]. Available: http://us.english.uga.edu/cgi?bin/browse.pl?%20project=lamsas&ling=Ireland%3Acp87%237a.asc&lingstyle=plain.
22.
Potyraj, John E.1994. Common Bond: A Steeple Press Book Commemorating the Bicentennial Anniversary of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Bryantown, Maryland. Norfolk, MA: Steeple Press.
23.
Sankoff, David. 1988. Variable Rules. In Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society/Soziolinguistik: Ein internationales Handbuch zur Wissenschaft von Sprache und Gesellschaft, edited by Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, and Klaus J. Mattheier. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
24.
Thomas, Erik , and Guy Bailey. 1992. ACase of Competing Mergers and Their Resolution. SECOL Review16:179-200.
25.
Thomas, Erik R.1997. A Rural/Metropolitan Split in the Speech of Texas Anglos. Language Variation and Change9:309-332.
26.
U.S. Bureau of the Census . 1995. Maryland: Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990[Online]. Available: http://www.census.gov/population/%20cencounts/md190090.txt.
27.
U.S. Bureau of the Census . 2001a. American Factfinder[Online]. Available: http://factfinder.census.%20gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet.
28.
U.S. Bureau of the Census . 2001b. Race, Hispanic or Latino, and Age: 2000: Charles County, Maryland[Online]. Available: http://factfinder.census.gov/bf/_lang=en_vt_name=%20DEC_2000_PL_U_QTPL_geo_id=05000US24017.html.
29.
U.S. Bureau of the Census . 2001c. Race, Hispanic or Latino, and Age: 2000: Maryland[Online]. Available: http://factfinder.census.gov/bf/_lang=en_vt_name=DEC_2000_%20PL_U_QTPL_geo_id=04000US24.html.