Chapter 1 | Enhancements

1.1 | Defining Dialect

Linguist Boyd Davis discuss the complex characteristics that are associated with an accent.

1.2 | THOUGHT vowel variation

Speakers pronouncing words with the THOUGHT vowel (i.e., bought and talk) in different ways.

1.3 | Dialect Myths and Linguistic Reality

A discussion of the relationship between older forms of English and current Appalachian speech.

1.4 | Standards and Vernaculars

A discussion of prescriptive versus descriptive views of language.

1.5 | Language Descriptivism and Prescriptivism

A public service announcement about linguistic profiling produced by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, in consultation with sociolinguist John Baugh.
The Atlas of North American English shows regional distribution of dialects throughout North America

1.6

Description coming soon