Charles Boberg

Boberg, Charles and Jenna Hotton 2015 English in the Gaspé region of Quebec English World-Wide 36:3, pp. 277–314 | Article

This paper reports on the first-ever linguistic study of the variety of English spoken in the Gaspé region of eastern Quebec, which is 86 percent French-speaking. An on-line survey was used to gather data from 200 participants on 58 phonological, grammatical and lexical variables, drawn mostly, for… read more

Boberg, Charles 2007 Review of Murray & Simon (2006): Language Variation and Change in the American Midland English World-Wide 28:2, pp. 201–205 | Review

Boberg, Charles 2004 The Dialect Topography of Montreal English World-Wide 25:2, pp. 171–198 | Article

A new survey of variation and change in Canadian English, called Dialect Topography, has been extended from Southern Ontario, where it was conceived and originally implemented, to Montreal. In the tradition of earlier questionnaires investigating Canadian English, the new data contribute to our… read more

Boberg, Charles 2003 Review of Chambers, Trudgill & Schilling-Estes (2002): The Handbook of Language Variation and Change English World-Wide 24:1, pp. 109–113 | Review

Boberg, Charles 2000 Review of Klerk (1996): Focus on South Africa Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:2, pp. 364–367 | Review

Boberg, Charles 2000 Review of Bernstein, Nunnally & Sabino (1997): Language variety in the South revisited Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 15:1, pp. 216–221 | Review

Boberg, Charles 1999 Review of Schneider (1996): Focus on the USA Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:1, pp. 176–182 | Review

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