Sunday, October 4, 2009

Where are the dialects of American ENglish at anyhow?

by Preston
http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/78/3/235.pdf

Preston wishes Labov, Ash and Boberg had surveyed people who live outside major cities.

He proposes that there IS a Midland, but it is very skinny and begins north of Indianapolis!

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