This segment from Late Night with Seth Meyers, “Boston Accent Trailer”, parodies Hollywood films set in Boston and their treatment of language. It comments humorously… Read More »Seth Meyers “Boston Accent Trailer”
This website demonstrates regional variation in pronunciation with examples of how people in different parts of the US pronounce the word “bought.” http://www.utexas.edu/courses/linguistics/resources/socioling/boughtmap/index.html Creole, Gullah* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGx1icFdLQ… Read More »Regional variation in pronunciation/ dialect map
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGx1icFdLQ[/youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPGx1icFdLQ John Baugh discusses linguistic profiling (see also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KCL97s1lJg). [youtube]https://youtu.be/3KCL97s1lJg[/youtube] It also discusses the creolist theory of the origins of African American English. Around… Read More »Linguistic profiling, history of AAVE, Gullah
This video shows an example of the endangered Smith Island dialect of English