Suzhou Univ. English Educators Program at PSU

 

Dialects and American English

By Dr. Jeff Conn connjc@pdx.edu http://web.pdx.edu/~connjc/

 

 

Click here to download the resources with notes

Click here to download the 50 states version of dialect correctness/pleasantnes

 

Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation in PDF form from 7/22/10

Click here to download the PowerPoint presentation in PDF form from 7/26/10

 

Click here to download a PDF copy of English consonants and vowels chart

 

 

RESOURCES

 

Video and Internet Sources:

American Tongues video - http://www.cnam.com/non_flash/language/american.html

           

Do You Speak American website and video http://www.pbs.org/speak/

Conn article on Portland accent: http://www.pbs.org/speak/seatosea/americanvarieties/pacificnorthwest/

 

International Dialects of English Archive - http://web.ku.edu/~idea/

 

           

Some Useful Books:

Carver, C. (1987) American Regional Dialects: A Word Geography. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

 

Labov, W. (1994) Principles of Lingusitic Change, Volume 1: Internal Factors. Oxford: Blackwell.

 

Labov, W. (2001) Principles of Lingusitic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors. Oxford: Blackwell.

 

Labov, W., Ash, S. and Boberg, C. (2005) Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

http://linguistics.online.uni-marburg.de/free/courses/atlas_of_nae/atlas_main.html

Milroy, L. and Gordon, M. (2003) Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation. Oxford: Blackwell.

 

OGrady, W., Archibald, J., Aronoff, M., Rees-Miller, J. (2005) Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (5th edition). Bedford/St. Martins Press.

OGrady, W., Archibald, J., Aronoff, M., Rees-Miller, J. (2009) Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (6th edition). Bedford/St. Martins Press.

Wells, John C. (1982) Accents of English 1: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press.

Wells, John C. (1982) Accents of English 2: The British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press.

Wells, John C. (1982) Accents of English 3: Beyond the British Isles. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Press.

 

*Wolfram, W. and Schilling-Estes, N. (2006) American English. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. 2nd Edition.