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T-BD1  The regional vocabulary of Texas.  Elmer Bagby Atwood.  Repr. of 1962 ed.  Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1975.  xiii, 273 p.  ISBN 0-292-77008-1(paper)
    Contents: v. I, the area; v. II, the method; v. III, topical survey of the vocabulary; v. IV, geographical aspects of the survey; v. V, dialect mixture and meaning; v. VI, obsolescence and replacement; v. VII, lexicographical pilon; v. VIII, word atlas. Includes word index.

T-BD2  Linguistic atlas of Texas German.  Glenn G. Gilbert.  Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1972.  vii, 25 p.  ill., vi, 148 l. of maps.  (Deutscher sprachatlas, regionale sprachatlanten, nr. 5)  ISBN 0-292-70088-1
    Covers 31-county area of Central Texas. 148 expressions or phrases are coded to separate maps. Bibliography (p. 24-25).

T-BD3  From Blinky to Blue-John: a word atlas of Northeast Texas.  Fred Anderson Tarpley.  Wolfe City: Univ. Pr., 1970.  338 p.  ISBN 0-8413-4671-2
    Based on the author's Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State Univ., 1960 (DAI AAG6005929). A study of the geographical distribution of folk synonyms in a 26-county area.

T-BD4  A word atlas of central Texas.  Patty Sue Lewis Reagan.  Commerce: East Texas State Univ., 1979.  x, 759 p.  ill., maps.
    Thesis (Ed. D.), East Texas State Univ., 1979 (DAI AAG8009617). Includes bibliographical references (p. 700-701).

T-BD5  The speech of East Texas.  Oma Stanley.  New York: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1937.  x, 135 p.  ill., map.  (American speech, reprints and monographs, no. 2)
    Thesis (Ph.D.), Columbia Univ., 1936. Bibliography (p. vii-viii).

T-BD6  A word atlas of North Central Texas.  Patricia Kay Elder Dean.  Commerce: East Texas State Univ, 1980.  2 v. (xi, 740 l.)  ill., maps.
    Thesis (Ed. D.), East Texas State Univ., 1980 (DAI AAG8018363). Includes bibliographical references (l. 667-669).

T-BD7  A word-list from West Texas.  James Nathan Tidwell.  Tuscaloosa, AL: Univ. of Alabama Pr., Jan. 1949; Greensboro, NC: American Dialect Soc., 1949.  68 p.  (Pub. of the American Dialect Soc., no.11)  $7 ISBN 0-8173-0611-0 (paper)

T-BD8  The regional vocabulary of Brownsville, Texas.  Juliet Villarreal Garcia.  Austin: Univ. of Texas, 1976.  xi, 132 l.  ill.
    Thesis (Ph. D.), Univ. of Texas at Austin, 1976 (DAI AAG7703900). Includes bibliographical references (l. 126-132).

T-BD9  Regional dictionary of Chicano slangLibrado Keno Vasquez, Maria Enriqueta Vasquez.  Austin: Jenkins Pub. Co., 1975.  111 p.  ISBN 0-8363-0083-1
    See
T-AC15.

T-BD10  The Texas Seminoles and their language.  Ian F. Hancock.  Austin: African and Afro-American Studies & Research Center, Univ. of Texas, 1980.  iv, 29 l.  (Papers, African and Afro-American Studies and Research Center, ser. 2, no. 1)
    Bibliography (l. 29).

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