American Speech
A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage
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Editors:
Jennifer Cramer, University of Kentucky
Derek Denis, University of Toronto Mississauga
Associate Editor for Book Reviews:
Katie Carmichael, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Associate Editor, Pedagogical Section:
Jeffrey Reaser, North Carolina State University
Associate Editor, Among the New Words:
Kelly Elizabeth Wright, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Managing Editor:
Charles E. Carson, Duke University Press
Assistant Editor:
Lynn Zhang (张笛菲)
Editorial Assistant:
MacKenzie Blaylock, University of Kentucky
Editorial Advisory Committee:
2024–26
Michael Adams, Indiana University at Bloomington
Elaine Chun, University of South Carolina
Jack Grieve, University of Birmingham
Sonja Lanehart, University of Arizona
Jim Wood, Yale University
2025–27
Allison Burkette, University of Kentucky
J. Daniel Hasty, Coastal Carolina University
Nicole Holliday, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Reed, University of Alabama
Nicole Rosen, University of Manitoba
2026–28
Gabriela Alfaraz, Michigan State University
Marisa Brook, Saint Mary’s University
Aaron Dinkin, San Diego State University
Josef Fruehwald, University of Kentucky
Erik Thomas, North Carolina State University
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American Speech is concerned principally with any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic) and in the Caribbean Basin, and the languages that influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical, Indigenous or introduced, common or rare. American Speech is not committed to any particular theoretical framework, but preference is given to articles that are likely to be of interest to a wide readership.
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To submit manuscripts of articles for American Speech, visit https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-asp and click Create an Account. Once you've logged in, navigate to your Author Center to start a submission.
Send proposals for monograph length studies for the Publication of the American Dialect Society series to american.speech@duke.edu.
Books for review should be e-mailed to managing editor Charles E. Carson at american.speech@duke.edu.
Send items for possible inclusion in "Among the New Words" to woty@americandialect.org
Manuscripts should be prepared in conformity with the style guide and The Chicago Manual of Style (18th ed., 2024). Documentation must be given parenthetically in the text using the author-date system (chap. 15), with a list of references at the end prepared in the humanities style.”. Substantive notes should appear at the end of the article before the references list. Figures, tables, and graphic materials may be placed within the manuscript at their first mention or on separate pages at the end of the manuscript.
Citation forms are to be italicized and glosses enclosed in single quotation marks, without intervening punctuation (e.g., hushpuppy 'fried corn bread'). Technical terms and emphasized words should be indicated by double underlining for small capitals, rather than by italics. Phonetic and phonemic transcriptions should be restricted to the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Word lists should be prepared in accordance with the "Style Sheet for Glossaries" (American Speech 45 [1970]: 141–51).
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e-ISSN: 1527-2133