English in the Southern United States phần 7 docx

... up in the pronunciation of the state name, with northern Louisiana favor- ing four syllables beginning [luz-] and southern Louisiana favoring five syllables beginning [luiz-]. The people of southern ... about Southern English as about southern music: Noting the “tangled genealogy” of southern musical styles, Edward L. Ayers [1992] insisted that southern music became mor...

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... oflanguage,” in Guy, Feagin, Schiffrin, and Baugh (eds.), 135–60. 19 97. The African contribution to southern states English, ”inBer nstein, Nunnally, and Sabino (eds.), 123–39. 1998. “Representing Southern ... drawl makes [her] $70 ,000 a year,” in her words. In selling mailing lists over the telephone, she finds the strategy of switching into a southern- sounding way of t...

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... present-tense indicative plural -s and the they-constraint Plural verbal -s is attested in the nineteenth-century in the southern United States (Bailey 1997b: 2 67) , and it is widespread in British ... support the above version of the Divergence Hypothesis, I capitalize here on the evidence provided by the socioeconomic history of the United States. Linguistic...

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... 10, 13, 15, 69, 71 , 74 , 75 , 77 , 87, 1 47, 175 inceptives 162 indentured servants 9, 11, 66, 67, 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 India 71 indicative 38, 39, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 60, 61, 62 indirectness 5, ... the Rat 176 GRITS (Grammatical Investigation of Texas Speech) 112, 113, 166 grits 178 Gulf Coastal Southern 7 Gulf Plains Interior Southern 7 Gullah 11, 65, 66, 67,...

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... discourse aboutSoutherners,whetherthe Southerners in questionare from the coastalorthe mountain South and whether they are men or women. Travelers from the North in the mid nineteenth century noted that Southerners ... observed in the speech of some Southerners (and in literary and other representations of southern speech). Then I talk about some of the things people may a...

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... speech there, so they may no longer Vowel shifting in the southern states 131 Looking at the social dimension of vowel shifting in Memphis, Fridland (2001) found that for the Southern Shift (i.e. the ... vowel shifting in the South, both the ordering of the changes and whether chain shifting is the mechanism taking place at all here. What she found was that while...

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... shifting in the southern states   1 Introduction In 1 972 it was first realized that there was a general shift in the vowels of not only the southern states, but all the souther n ... with southern speech. They appear in popular dictionaries of southern speech (Mitchell 1 976 , 1980), in literary worksrepresent- ing Southern dialect (Burkett 1 978 )...

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... illustrated in table 5.6. Table 5 .7 shows the subsequent loss of the NP/PRO constraint in the next generation of Springville speakers. The shared ancestry of Southern Englishes 77 geographical continuity, ... 99.2 .8 173 99.4 .6 221 98.6 1.4 355 99 .7 .3 3rd 360 82.2 17. 8 2 07 71.5 28.5 3 57 75.4 24.6 644 81.8 18.2 12 17 82.4 17. 6 p1. 1st 22 95.5 4.5 7 85 .7 14.3 35...

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... retentionist hypothesis, the belief that Southern English dialect largely consists of British dialectal forms preserved in the southern United States, by simply looking for southern speech forms in records ... earlier Southern English to have been a pivotal point in the transmission of English, especially northern English dialectal features, to the US. Another...

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... reaching the interior of Virginia in the 173 0s and the Carolinas in the 175 0s. They and their descendants settled and were culturally dominant in much of the interior or upper south – the Carolinas, ... chancy 1 The origins of Southern American English   1 Introduction The origins of Southern American English can be found on the islands off the sho...

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