English in the Southern United States phần 6 pdf

... 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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... the Rat 1 76 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 , 68 , 70, 72, 73, 76, 78, 84, 110, ... 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 60 , 61 , 62 indirectness 5, 191, 193, 200 Indo-European 6 in ectional typological structure 8 informants 21, 22, 40, 47, 53, 83, 92, 108, 121, 122,...

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... Schiffrin, and Baugh (eds.), 135 60 . 1997. The African contribution to southern states English, ”inBer nstein, Nunnally, and Sabino (eds.), 123–39. 1998. “Representing Southern States English: ... model for southern femininity, the model of the southern belle.” The southern belle as a literary type is of course most famously represented in Margaret Mitchell’s 19 36...

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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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... done in LAGS (Krueger 2001) 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 18 76- 1885 18 86- 1895 18 96- 1905 19 06- 1915 19 16- 1925 19 26- 1935 19 36- 1945 19 46- 1955 19 56- 1 965 1 966 - 1975 19 76- 1985 Date of birth of informants ... we found the term call over the mail for “delivering the Urbanization and Southern American English 165 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 99-77 76- 66 65- 46 45...

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... shifting in the southern states   1 Introduction In 1972 it was first realized that there was a general shift in the vowels of not only the southern states, but all the souther n ... University, the University 108 Cynthia Bernstein Table 6. 1 Usage of yall in LAGS by age Age Percent using yall 13–45 57% (112/1 96) 46 65 40% (85/210) 66 – 76 36% ( 96...

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... of speakers in the 1920–40 generation, starts to shift in the 1940 60 generation and is all but gone in the speech of Springville residents born after 1 960 . As speakers in the 1 960 –75 generation begin ... 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...

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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: 267 ), and it is widespread in British ... of the Jim Crow laws in the hinterland of the Southeast in the late nineteenth century. History sug- gests that, although discrimination was in place since the...

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... earlier Southern English to have been 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 ... data for the very earliest states of Southern United States English, as many of the vagrants and petty criminals who passed through the court were transported to t...

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... reaching the interior of Virginia in the 1730s and the Carolinas in the 1750s. 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 shore...

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