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The American Dialect Society. The primary organization dedicated to the study of regional American speech. There are searchable archives of the ADS-L listserver, an electronic index to the journal American Speech, as well as information on membership and upcoming conferences.
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When people ask us what we do for a living, and we reply that we study American English dialects, one of the next questions inevitably is, "how many dialects are there?" This question is surprisingly difficult to answer, despite the fact that researchers have been investigating language ... Dialect Myths and Reality...
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Most efforts to establish dialect regions in the U.S. are based on dialectological studies of vocabulary, begun in the 1930's by Kurath (1939), and completed for the U.S. by the Dictionary of American Regional English (Carver 1987). For most regions, it is not clear how these dialect divisions correspond to differences...
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Ash 1994). Many scholars believe that there are no discrete dialect boundaries, and that there are no clear and discrete dialect divisions of a language. That is the explicit position of Carver 1987, whose location of American dialect boundaries on the basis of regional vocabulary is not radically different from our own.
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But teachers are finding that it is a very different challenge to educate such West African students as Wollor, who come from vastly different cultures where the mother tongue is English, but not the standard American version.
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American Dialect Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The American Dialect Society , founded in 1889, is a learned society "dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influen...
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There are five original coastal centers from which most American dialects developed: Boston, Philadelphia, Tidewater Virginia, Charleston and New Orleans. ... Dialect Coaching...
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