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English in the Southern United States phần 4 pot
... -s in
the first singular and 5 percent -s in the third plural in the speech of the former
slaves). Even though speakers in the 1920 40 generation use significantly more
-s than speakers in the ... In the case of language,
speakers are very accommodating. Dispersing individuals in a metapopulation
find it easier to accommodate the locals in adopting their speech ha...
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... (2000)
report that an increasing number of non-Southerners participating in Southern
Focus Poll surveys acknowledge using yall or you all: 44 percent in 19 94, and
49 percent in 1996. Interestingly, this ... 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 souther...
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... 80, 149 , 155
Chesapeake Bay 4, 122, 144 , 148 , 149 , 152, 1 54,
155, 158
Cheshire, Jenny 146 , 148
Chinese 12
Ching, Marvin K. L. 115, 116, 192, 195
chi-square 32
choice in Southern American English ... 143 , 144 , 145 , 146 , 147 ,
148 , 149 , 151, 152, 153, 1 54, 155, 157
enclave speech community 144
endangered dialect 141
Engelmann, Siegfried 1 04
England 9, 10, 14, 20, 27,...
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... The
African contribution to southern states English,
”inBer
nstein, Nunnally,
and Sabino (eds.), 123–39.
1998. “Representing Southern States English: pitfalls and solutions,” in Bronstein
(ed.), 78–95.
Fennell, ... aspects of southern style in her bid to “sound southern. ”
The resources of southernness are available to these women because of where
they are from: they have...
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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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... 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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... 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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... support the above version of the Divergence Hypothesis, I capitalize here
on the evidence provided by the socioeconomic history of the United States.
Linguistic evidence is rather indirect,lying inthe ... 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 ... 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 putatively
homogeneou...
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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...