Steven Hartman Keiser
List of John Benjamins publications for which Steven Hartman Keiser plays a role.
Articles
2009 When ‘Speech Islands’ Aren’t Islands: Parallel independent development, drift, and minimal levels of contact for diffusion Diachronica 26:1, pp. 1–35 | Article
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… read more
2006 15. Portable Community: The linguistic and psychological reality of Midwestern Pennsylvania German Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at ‘Heartland’ English, Murray, Thomas E. and Beth Lee Simon (eds.), pp. 263–274 | Chapter