Chapter 5 | Enhancements

5.1

 A diagram of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift; click on the various words to hear the shifted pronunciations.

5.2

William Labov explaining the Northern Cities Vowel Shift.

5.3

 A diagram of the Southern Vowel Shift; click on the various words to hear the shifted pronunciations.

5.4

A diagram of the Northern California Vowel Shift; click on the various words to hear the shifted pronunciations.

5.5

A clickable map enabling you to listen to clips of people talking about – and using – California English.

5.6

Watch Dennis Preston at work, administering a map‐drawing task to elicit dialect perceptions

5.7-8

Here a Northerner talking about her perceptions of Southern speech, and then a Southerner talking about her perceptions of Northern speech.