Bibliography
This page includes lists of published academic work that…
- are based on the original fieldwork from which APLS data is drawn
- use APLS
- are about APLS itself
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Publications based on original fieldwork
APLS includes just a subset of the audio files from this fieldwork (see the Pittsburgh interviews page). As a result, specific interview excerpts discussed in these publications may not be in APLS, and specific findings discussed in these publications may not replicate in APLS.
Bloomquist, Jennifer and Shelome Gooden. 2015. African American Language in Pittsburgh and the Lower Susquehanna Valley. In Jennifer Bloomquist, Lisa J. Green, and Sonja L. Lanehart (eds.), The Oxford handbook of African American Language, 236–255. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199795390.013.35
Eberhardt, Maeve. 2008. The low-back merger in the Steel City: African American English in Pittsburgh. American Speech 83(3). 284–311. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2008-021
Eberhardt, Maeve. 2009. African American and white vowel systems in Pittsburgh. In Erik R. Thomas and Malcah Yaeger-Dror (eds.), The Publication of the American Dialect Society, 129–157. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/-94-1-129
Eberhardt, Maeve. 2009. Identities and local speech in Pittsburgh: A study of regional African American English. Pittsburgh https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/7433/ (accessed March 6, 2026)
Eberhardt, Maeve. 2009. The sociolinguistics of ethnicity in Pittsburgh. Language and Linguistics Compass 3(6). 1443–1454. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-818X.2009.00157.x
Eberhardt, Maeve. 2012. Enregisterment of Pittsburghese and the local African American community. Language & Communication 32(4). 358–371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2012.08.002
Gooden, Shelome and Maeve Eberhardt. 2007. Local identity and ethnicity in Pittsburgh AAE. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13(2). 81–94. https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/44655 (accessed March 6, 2026)
Johnstone, Barbara. 2007. Linking identity and dialect through stancetaking. In Robert Englebretson (eds.), Stancetaking in discourse: Subjectivity, evaluation, interaction, 49–68. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.164.04joh
Johnstone, Barbara. 2013. Speaking Pittsburghese: The story of a dialect. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945689.001.0001
Johnstone, Barbara. 2018. Southern speech with a Northern accent: Performance norms in an imitation. American Speech 93(3-4). 497–512. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-7271294
Johnstone, Barbara, Jennifer Andrus, and Andrew E. Danielson. 2006. Mobility, indexicality, and the enregisterment of “Pittsburghese”. Journal of English Linguistics 34(2). 77–104. https://doi.org/10.1177/0075424206290692
Johnstone, Barbara, Daniel Baumgardt, Maeve Eberhardt, and Scott Kiesling. 2015. Pittsburgh speech and Pittsburghese. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511786
Johnstone, Barbara and Scott F. Kiesling. 2008. Indexicality and experience: Exploring the meanings of /aw/-monophthongization in Pittsburgh. Journal of Sociolinguistics 12(1). 5–33. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00351.x