Perceptual Dialectology: Northerners and Southerners’ View of Different American Dialects
Keywords:
Perceptual dialectology, dialects, American English
Abstract
American English, also known as US English, is a set of dialects in the English language mostly used in the United States. It has considerable variations in terminology, phrasing and syntax. The differences are mostly on regional basis. The three major regional dialects are: Northern, Midland, and Southern. Generally, dialect varieties are acceptable in society; however, some of them are more stigmatized than others. The present study has been done to examine American English speakers‟ perceptions towards regional American varieties in terms of correctness, pleasantness, and difference from their own speech.Downloads
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Bucholtz, M., Bermudez, N., Fung, V., Vargas, R., &Edwards, L. (2008). The normative North and the stigmatized South: Ideology and methodlogy in the perceptual dialectology of California. Journal of English Linguistics, 36(1), 62-87.
Clopper, C. & Pisoni, D. (2003). Some acoustic cues for the perceptual categorization of American English regional dialects. Elsevier Science Ltd.
Clopper, C., Levi, S., & Pisoni, D. (2006). Perceptual similarity of regional dialects of American English. Acoustical Society of America, 119(1), 566-574.
Kuiper, L. (2005). La perception est la réalité: Les perceptions parisienne et provençale des variétés régionales de français (Perception of reality: Parisian and Provencal perceptions of regional varieties of French). Journal of Socio-linguistics, 9, 28-52.
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Wolfram, W. & Ward, B. (2006). American Voices: How dialects differ from coast to coast. Malden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Published
2014-06-01
How to Cite
Yannuar, N., Azimova, K., & Nguyen, D. (2014). Perceptual Dialectology: Northerners and Southerners’ View of Different American Dialects. K@ta, 16(1), 8-14. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.9744/kata.16.1.8-14
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