Chapter 1 | Enhancements
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1.1 | Defining DialectLinguist Boyd Davis discuss the complex characteristics that are associated with an accent. |
1.2 | THOUGHT vowel variationSpeakers pronouncing words with the THOUGHT vowel (i.e., bought and talk) in different ways. |
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1.3 | Dialect Myths and Linguistic RealityA discussion of the relationship between older forms of English and current Appalachian speech. |
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1.4 | Standards and VernacularsA discussion of prescriptive versus descriptive views of language. |
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1.5 | Language Descriptivism and PrescriptivismA 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
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1.6Description coming soon |