LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN THE US

AN INTRODUCTION

Chapter 5

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Examples and Resources

Page # Callout # Link Description
95 5.1 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/ "The New York Times' Most Popular Story of 2013 Was Not an Article." The Atlantic Monthly's discussion of the American dialect test.
96 5.2 a) http://marylandnationalroad.org/
b)http://www.eriecanal.org/
a) Maryland National Road
b) Erie Canal
97 5.3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csfyrRqc5TU Ocracoke Brogue
99 5.4 http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4204799 Colorado place name pronunciations.
98 5.5 http://www.hu.mtu.edu/vup/pasty/recipes.htm Pasty recipe.
98 5.6 a) http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/November-2013/In-Praise-of-the-Jibarito-Chicagos-Greatest-Food-Invention/
b) http://chicago.seriouseats.com/2012/07/the-10-best-jibaritos-in-chicago.html
The Jibarito!
a) "In Praise of the Jibarito"
b) "The 10 Best Jibaritos in Chicago"
101 5.7 http://www.americandialect.org/ American Dialect Society official website.
102 5.8 http://www.lap.uga.edu/Site/LANE.html Linguistic Atlas of New England (LANE).
102 5.9 http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/17 Hans Kurath.
102 5.10 a)http://illocutioninc.com/site/products-data.html
b) http://www.lap.uga.edu/Projects/LAWS/Speakers/
c) http://www.lap.uga.edu
a) LAMR transcripts
b) LAWS audio files
c) ALAP
103 5.11 a) http://dare.wisc.edu/
b) http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/44
a) DARE
b) Arthur the Rat
104 5.12 http://dare.wisc.edu/node/25 Uses of DARE.
104 5.13 http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/home.html TELSUR.
104 5.14 http://www.pbs.org/speak/ahead/change/changin/ "Vowel shifting," discussion by Matthew Gordon for PBS.
105 5.15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UoJ1-ZGb1w Video on the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, from Do You Speak American.
106 5.16 http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/index.html Harvard Dialect Survey.
107 5.17 http://www.atlas.mouton-content.com/ TELSUR phonological data.
108 5.18 http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1318 Tennessee Civil War Veterans Questionnaires.
109 5.19 http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/LANGUAGE-A-little-South-out-West-2723554.php "Southern" speech in the West.
109 5.20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03iwAY4KlIU Video of Appalachian speech.
109 5.21 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpFDNTo4DNg#t=100 Video of New Orleans speech.
110 5.22 http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/69 DARE entry for Blue Norther.
110 5.23 http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration History of the Great Migration.
111 5.24 http://screen.yahoo.com/mike-myers-snl-skits/coffee-talk-barbara-streisand-stops-000000406.html Video: Coffee talk skit from SNL.
111 5.25 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-XEHwUBubk Video clip from Fargo.
113 5.26 http://www.pittsburghese.com/ Pittsburghese website.
113 5.27 a) http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/lewis-clark/
b) http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act/
a) Lewis and Clark
b) The Homestead Act
114 5.28 http://www.14ers.com/ Fourteeners.
115 5.29 http://screen.yahoo.com/boontling-lost-american-language-000000145.html Boontling website.
116 5.30 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389264/Is-Southern-accent-dying-How-new-research-shows-upper-middle-classes-losing-drawl.html "Is the Southern Accent Dying?" from the Daily Mail.

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Suggested Reading

Regional Variation in American English

Carver, C. M. (1987). American regional dialects: A word geography. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.

Cassidy, F. G., & Hall, J. H. (1985). Dictionary of American regional English. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press at Harvard University Press.

Fischer, D. H. (1989). Albion's seed: Four British folkways in America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Kurath, H. (1949). A word geography of the Eastern United States. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.

Kurath, H., & McDavid, R. I. Jr. (1961). The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic states. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.

Labov, W., Ash, S., & Boberg, C. (2006). Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, phonology, and sound change. The Hague: Walter de Gruyter.

McDavid, R. I. Jr. (1958). American English dialects. In W. N. Francis (Ed.), The structure of American English (pp. 480-543). New York, NY: The Ronald Press Co.

Metcalf, A. (2000). How we talk: American regional English today. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Wolfram, W., & Schilling-Estes, N. (1998). American English: Dialects and variation. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Wolfram, W., & Ward, B. (Eds). (2006). American voices: How dialects differ from coast to coast. Malden, MA: Blackwell.