American Voices How Dialects Differ from coast to coast 04 doc

... word to invoke humor or to impress the listener with their knowledge of Pennsylvania German, as these examples show: “I can, but I get verhuddelt every now and then.” “I used to try to talk to ... community. However, Cajun English use has been documented among even the youngest Cajun descendants, a fact that is easy to verify simply by going to any café in any small town in sout...

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... European American varieties over the years, so that present-day AAE is now quite different from contemporary benchmark European American dialects. The differences are not due to earlier language history, ... to erode as the community emerges from insularity and adapts to the modern world? It is not easy to answer this question, and it may be too early to tell. Younger Trist...

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... Mid-Atlantic coastal region, although its use extends from the coastal areas of Virginia and Maryland to the north down to the southern areas of coastal North Carolina. The use of the preposition to for ... with crabbing, we find dozens that refer to the crabs themselves, including terms for various sizes of soft crab (ranging from mediums to hotels to primes to jumbos to w...

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... to go to the coast (geow to the ceowst), not the beach or the shore, as well as to microbrews, used clothing stores (where the clothes are not too spendy ‘expensive’), bookstores (bik-stores), ... sound to many speakers like but. Dialects follow different shifts over time and become distinct, which is why American English differs from British and Australian English, for exam...

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... English to speak with the occasional British military visitor. He may also have spoken some Potawatomi, the Native American language of his wife and her family. There is a lesson to be learned from ... Small-Town Values and Big-City Vowels (2001, Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Dennis Preston’s research on popular attitudes toward American dialects is reported in his contribut...

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... As a result, they can be useful to people who are trying to “sell” the city to tourists or businesses from outside. Linguists still have a lot to learn about the dialects of southwestern Pennsylvania. Like ... as in toity-toid and toid, for 33rd and 3rd, but you would be hard pressed to hear that anymore among European Americans in New York. Perhaps this decline, along with othe...

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... Wicked Good Guide to Boston English. www.boston-online.com/ glossary.html. International Institute of Boston. Immigration to Boston: A Short History. www.iiboston.org/immigrant_history.htm. Laferriere, ... pronunciation patterns to illustrate both how New England differs from the rest of the country and what region-internal differences exist. Settlement of New England The Massachuse...

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... prone to diseases like yellow fever, to springtime flooding from the rising river, and to tropical storms, it also made the port strategically important to European colonial powers and later to the United ... Mountains allowed these different dialects to blend together in isolation over the past several centuries and develop into a distinct regional variety of speech that AVC04...

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... condition of Amer- ican dialects is, “Are American dialects dying, due to television and the AVC01 21/7/05, 10:48 AM1 AMERICAN VOICES How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast Edited by Walt Wolfram and ... African Americans across urban and rural areas that range from Boston to Los Angeles. Population Movement Dialect boundaries often follow the migratory routes o...

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