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 syllablesbeginning [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 more rather than less southern ... sources rather than on original ﬁeldwork must 173 The Englishes of southern Louisiana 175 southern portion of the vast Louisiana territory near the Gulf of Mexico and the mouth of the Mississippi...

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... oflanguage,” in Guy, Feagin, Schiffrin, and Baugh (eds.), 135–60.19 97. The African contribution to southern states English, ”inBernstein, Nunnally,and Sabino (eds.), 123–39.1998. “Representing Southern ... drawlmakes [her] $70 ,000 a year,” in her words. In selling mailing listsover the telephone, she ﬁnds the strategy of switching into a southern- sounding wayof talking and interacting to be particularly ... English, ” in Preston (ed.), 2 87 318.1997a. “Southern AmericanEnglish: a prospective,” inBernstein, Nunnally, andSabino(eds.), 21–31.1997b. “When did Southern American English begin?,” in Schneider...

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... present-tense indicative plural -s and the they-constraintPlural 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 hereon the evidence provided by the socioeconomic history of the United States. Linguistic evidence is rather indirect,lying inthe ... from one setting or region to another.Thus, as in all prior evolutions of the English language since the inception of Old English in the ﬁfth or sixth century, the speciﬁcs of the contacts varied...

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... 10, 13, 15, 69, 71 , 74 , 75 , 77 , 87, 1 47, 175 inceptives 162indentured servants 9, 11, 66, 67, 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 India 71 indicative 38, 39, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 60,61, 62indirectness 5, ... the Rat 176 GRITS (Grammatical Investigation of TexasSpeech) 112, 113, 166grits 178 Gulf Coastal Southern 7 Gulf Plains Interior Southern 7 Gullah 11, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70 , 72 , 73 , 76 , 78 , 84,110, ... English 5, 176 , 177 , 178 , 179 ,180glossary 183Grip the Rat 176 identity 177 Cajun French 175 , 177 Cajun motto 174 Cajun Renaissance 177 , 178 call and response 198Caribbean 67, 68, 73 , 83Caribbean...

English in the Southern United States phần 8 ppt

... discourseaboutSoutherners,whetherthe Southerners in questionare from the coastalorthemountain 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 accomplishby adoptingfeatures of southern ... glossary of Cajun English, A–OThese terms appear in one or both of the popular glossaries of Cajun English (Sothern 1 977 ; Martin and Martin 1993) and in either DARE (A–O) or LAGS(General Index, vol....

English in the Southern United States phần 6 pdf

... speech there, so they may no longerVowel shifting in the southern states 131Looking at the social dimension of vowel shifting in Memphis, Fridland (2001)found that for the Southern Shift (i.e. the ... vowelshifting in the South, both the ordering of the changes and whether chain shiftingis the mechanism taking place at all here.What she found was that while the back movements were in place, the ... comment that breakingVowel shifting in the southern states 135 in the “normal” places. The woman born in 1890 shows (uw) as a high centralvowel, but (ow) is in a solid back position. The grandchildren’s...

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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 notonly the southern states, but all the southern ... with southern speech. They appear in populardictionaries of southern speech (Mitchell 1 976 , 1980), in literary worksrepresent-ing Southern dialect (Burkett 1 978 ), and in ﬁlms including southern ... pronunciations. 7 The ‘ southern drawl”There are two distinct interpretations of the term southern drawl”: the commonor folk notion and the linguistic deﬁnition (Montgomery 1989a: 76 1). In commonparlance,...

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... illustrated in table 5.6. Table 5 .7 shows the subsequent loss of the NP/PROconstraint 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 .33rd 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. 6p1. 1st 22 95.5 4.5 7 85 .7 14.3 35 100 60 98.3 1 .7 2 27 99.6 .42nd [4 75 .0 ... 1 972 , 1 977 ,1 979 ), provided researchers with diachronic evidence of a period in southern speech crucial to the understanding of black/white speech relationships in the South.5 In fact, as the...

English in the Southern United States phần 2 doc

... retentionist hypothesis, the belief that Southern English dialect largely consists of British dialectal formspreserved in the southern United States, by simply looking for southern speechforms in records ... earlier Southern English to havebeen a pivotal point in the transmission of English, especially northern English dialectal features, to the US.Another obvious use of the SPOC is the testing of ... concerning the nature, the uniformity, and the origins of Southern English. In a sense, it is even presumptuous to talk of Southern English as a putativelyhomogeneous linguistic entity in itself...

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... reaching the interior of Virginia in the 173 0s and the Carolinas in the 175 0s. They and their descendantssettled and were culturally dominant in much of the interior or uppersouth – the Carolinas, ... chancy1 The origins of Southern American English  1 Introduction The origins of Southern American English can be found on the islands off the shore of the Netherlands and in northern ... delimit southern speech, even with the salienceof phonology to the identity of Southern English. He ascribes this difﬁculty toIntroduction The English of the southern United States may be the most...

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