Dialect Features Affecting the social mobility and economic opportunities of the disadvantaged in Fort Wayne, IN

thesis
by Charles Edward Billiard

1969

p. 107 "cultivated speakers distinguished /o/ and {backwards}/c/ in such words as cot and caught...WOrking class and lower-class Latin-Americans have difficulty attaining proper distinctions in the English vowel systems, particularly in pronouncing the phonemes, /I?, /ae/, /schwa/, u/,...."

p.205 --Southern and SOuth Midland forms were less tolerated than Northern forms (greazy rejected by prestigious groups)

The Speech of terre haute: a hoosier dialect study

by marvin dale carmony

thesis

p. xv "This study indicates, among other things, that 1 the vocabulary of Terre Haute is essentialy Midland, witha strong admixture of Northern and North Midland words, as well as a considerable proportion of Southern words; (2) the pronunciation of Terre Haute clearly reflects the city's settlement and cultural history, the prestige dialect of today stemming from the prestigiouis and dominat Yankee elemt of yesterday, while "inferior" speech is that containing tyhe most substantial number fo South Midland features; (3) the degree of both social stratification and racial segregation is considerable, judging form the number fo lexical, phonological, morphological and syntactic features with social and racial connotations."

Indiana dialects in their historical setting

by Marvin Carmony

p9 south and north immigrants to IN
p11 Hoosiers are "isolated and self-sufficient"
p15 older dialectology
p18 N. and S. divided, but some words throughout IN
p19 North, South, and Midland with N.Midland and S.Midland
p26 there was a fuzzier line between dialects for freshmen in 1969
p28 southern march of northern words
p28-29 southernmost IN is seperate still
p 32-33 northern forms winning out
p38 "melk" and "manella"