Pennsylvania German Riddles and Nursery Rhymes

1906 ◽  
Vol 19 (73) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Jno. Baer Stoudt
Keyword(s):  
Pennsylvania German

When ‘Speech Islands’ Aren’t Islands: Parallel independent development, drift, and minimal levels of contact for diffusion

Diachronica ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Hartman Keiser
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
Recent Discussion ◽  
Minimal Level ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Pennsylvania German ◽  
American Midwest ◽  
Low Intensity ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Diffusion

This study explores the related concepts of parallel independent development and drift, highlighting in particular the challenge of quantifying isolation. I analyze the precisely synchronized spread of a sound change, the monophthongization of /aɪ/, across Pennsylvania German ‘speech islands’ in the American Midwest. A key finding is that the intensity and duration of interspeaker contact required to catalyze apparent parallel developments may have lower than expected thresholds. The significance of extensive yet low-intensity cross-migration patterns across these communities at particular points in their histories ultimately leads to an exploration of the minimal level of contact required for diffusion of a change and feeds into recent discussion on the social contexts for transmission and diffusion (e.g., Labov 2007).

Pennsylvania German

1991 ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Lois Huffines
Keyword(s):  
Pennsylvania German

Pennsylvania German Literature (Changing Trends from 1683 to 1942)

1945 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Dieter Cunz ◽  
Earl F. Robacker
Keyword(s):  
German Literature ◽  
Pennsylvania German ◽  
Changing Trends
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