Dialectology
Class Slides
Readings
Language Files 10.2-3
Purely Optional
Visit maps of North American English, most
particularly the
National
Map
of the Regional Dialects of American English. The maps on this
site show the main vowel shifts that characterize the major regional
dialects.
The real thing is available on CD-Rom in Green Library:
William Labov, Sharon Ash and Charles
Boberg. 2006. The atlas of North American English : phonetics,
phonology, and sound change : a multimedia reference tool. Berlin ;
New York : Mouton de Gruyter.
The American Dialect Society has a page with a bunch of
links
(many of
them dead...) to sites dealing with American dialects.
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