English in the Southern United States phần 3 docx

... plurality 48 Laura Wright 3. 3 Third-person 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: ... 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...

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... The African contribution to southern states English, ”inBer nstein, Nunnally, and Sabino (eds.), 1 23 39 . 1998. “Representing Southern States English: pitfalls and solutions,” in Bronstein (ed.), 78–95. Fennell, ... model for southern femininity, the model of the southern belle.” The southern belle as a literary type is of course most famously represented in Margar...

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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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... Index 235 middle 11, 84, 106, 111, 126, 131 , 137 , 138 , 181, 191 upper 11, 106, 111, 112, 132 , 133 , 135 , 136 , 138 , 139 working 9, 47, 53, 92, 106, 112, 126, 131 , 132 , 133 , 135 , 136 , 138 , 191, ... Corpus (SPOC) 1, 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 Southern Shift 4, 126, 128, 130 , 131 , 168 Southern White Vernacular English (SWVE) 3, 42, 82 Southerners 5, 15, 21, 26, 42, 64, 68, 7...

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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 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 ... with southern speech. They appear in popular dictionaries of southern speech (Mitchell 1976, 1980), in literary worksrepresent- ing Southern dialect (Burkett 1978), and...

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... 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 habits than to maintain their ... period in southern speech crucial to the understanding of black/white speech relationships in the South. 5 In fact, as the 1980s unfolded there was a growing consensus amo...

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... characteristically Southern English uses and patterns are all unique to the South, undocumented in Britain and thus innovations of southern dialect. The origins of Southern American English 13 Germans, ... 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 hom...

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... reaching the interior of Virginia in the 1 730 s 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 sho...

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