Here are a few relevant readings on Wisconsin (and  regional) English. We welcome suggestions for additions.

General work on Wisconsin English

Cassidy, Frederic G. 1948. “On collecting American dialect.” American Speech 23.193.  

Wisconsin words

Cassidy, Frederic G. & Joan Houston Hall, eds. 1985–. The Dictionary of American Regional English . Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
[The source for American regional vocabulary. An index to vol. 3 gives many references to Wisconsin.]

Schneidemesser, Luanne von. "The Dialect Vocabulary of the Midwest." Encyclopedia of the Midwest. Andrew Cayton, Richard Sisson, and Christian Zacher, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

Schneidemesser, Luanne von & Julie Plier. In preparation. Wisconsin Words.

Wisconsin vowels

Purnell, Thomas. To appear. "Phonetic detail in the perception of ethnic varieties of US English."

Purnell, Thomas. In review. "Acoustic Consequences of Spectral Power Adjustments in Two Dialects of American English."

Purnell, Thomas. 2005. "The Secret Life of Vowels: Diphthongization, Mergers and Shifts." Paper presented to the Midwest meeting of the American Dialect Society. Milwaukee, November.  

Wisconsin consonants

Purnell, Thomas, Joseph Salmons, Dilara Tepeli & Jennifer Mercer. 2005. "Structured heterogeneity and change in laryngeal phonetics: Upper Midwestern final obstruents." Journal of English Linguistics 33:4.307-338.

Tepeli, Dilara, Joseph Salmons & Thomas Purnell. Forthcoming. "Was bleibt bestehen? Der deutsche Einfluß auf das Amerikanische." Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA / The German presence in the U.S.A., ed. by Josef Raab & Jan Wirrer. Essen: Die blaue Eule. (= Arbeiten zur Amerikanistik .)

German influence on Wisconsin English

Benjamin, Steven M. & Luanne von Schneidemesser. 1979. " German Loanwords in American English, A Bibliography of Studies, 1872- 1978." American Speech 54.210-215.

Howell, Robert B. 1993. “German Immigration and the Development of Regional Variants of American English: Using contact theory to discover our roots.” The German Language in America , ed. Joseph Salmons. Madison: Max Kade Institute, 190-212.
[Reliable survey of possible German influences on English, with lots of Wisconsin data.]

Purnell, Thomas, Dilara Tepeli & Joseph Salmons. 2005. "German substrate effects in Wisconsin English: Evidence for final fortition." American Speech 80.135-164.

Salmons, Joseph, Dilara Tepeli & Thomas Purnell. 2006. "Deutsche Spuren im amerikanischen Englischen." Deutsche Sprachinseln heute ed. by Nina Berend & Elisabeth Knipf-Komlósi. (= VarioLingua. Nonstandard - Standard - Substandard ). Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang.
[A general overview of possible German influences on Wisconsin English.]

Schneidemesser, Luanne von. 1993. “More German loanwords from the Dictionary of American Regional English.” The German Language in America . Hrsg. Joseph Salmons. Madison: Max Kade Institute. 225-49.

Schneidemesser, Luanne von. 2002. “Settlement history in the United States as reflected in DARE: The example of German.” American Speech 77.398-418.

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