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Mapping American Dialects

Label
Mapping American Dialects
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Mapping American Dialects
Oclc number
993047446
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Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2016
Runtime
29
Summary
What do you call a big road where you drive fast: highway, parkway, freeway, or something else? How do you pronounce the word "been3: with the vowel in "sit,"see,"or "set3? Take a quiz and see where your linguistic usages place you on the American dialect map. Delve into how linguists who study dialects - sociolinguists, dialectologists, and dialect geographers - get data to make their dialect maps, and how they decide where to draw dialect lines
Technique
live action
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