Oral History Interview: Frederic G. Cassidy (0315)
Subject
Jamaica
Linguistics
Field Research
Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE)
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Background; Oberlin College; Work on Early Modern English Dictionary; Ph.D. work and teaching at Michigan; His wife; Development of field of linguistics; Arrival at UW in 1939; Work on Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States; Research, funding and editing of Dictionary of Jamaican English; Questionnaires for lexicographic field research; American Dialect Society and genesis of Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE); Editing DARE; Funding; Audrey Duckert; Research; Field work; Editing; Computer use
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