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A Cross Generational Dialect Study in Western North Carolina
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Holt, Yolanda Feimster – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation evaluates the relationship between African American English and White Vernacular English as spoken in a small rural town in western North Carolina for consistencies in vowel production by group membership and for participation in the Southern Vowel Shift (SVS), a vowel rotation currently occurring in the Southern United States. A…
Descriptors: Vowels, Word Lists, Statistical Analysis, North American English