Date:  Sun, 28 Nov 1993 14:06:07 -0500

From:  "J. Chambers" <chambers[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>

Subject: Re: diversity of accents revisited



I just sent a message to you ADS networkers in response to Tim Frazer

& Rudy Troike, who were at the top of my message list (i.e., the most

recent) when I signed on. Then, as I worked my way down (temporally as

well as list-wise) I discovered that my message should have been more

general because Natalie and others have been looking in vain for a

discussion in print on the issue. So I am pleased to say that my

chapter in Dennis's ADS centennial vol. includes that discussion on

pp. 138-40 (plus cross refs to other parts of that chapter). As far as

I know, it is the only discussion so directly on that topic--or so

generally. But I cite a couple of articles (Ervin-Tripp, Labov,

perhaps some others) that impinge upon it. I look at my e-mail about

once a week on average, and I often wish it accumulated with the

oldest at the top, so I could follow the chronology without having to

reconstruct it.     --Jack