Chapter 10: Language Variation

File 10.2

Section 10.2.5, pg. 438: The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project has maps and discussion about various examples of syntactic variation in English.
Section 10.2.6, pg. 439: Pop vs. Soda map by county

Section 10.3.4, pg. 444, top: Video on the Northern Cities Vowel Shift: Bill Labov, excerpt from Do You Speak American?
Section 10.3.4, pg. 444, middle: Harvard Dialect Survey results

Section 10.4.5.c, pg. 454: A Dialect Dictionary of Lumbee English (originally from the Learn NC website; now permanently archived on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine)

Section 10.5.3, pg. 458, footnote 2: John Baugh's website, including a TEDxEmory talk: "The Significance of Linguistic Profiling"; an article on linguistic profiling by Patricia Rice

Exercises for File 10.3, pg. 467, Activity #23: Harvard Dialect Survey map of merry, marry, and Mary; all Harvard Dialect Survey Maps and Results
Exercises for File 10.3, pg. 467, Activity #24: Unfortunately, the British Library web resource is not currently available, due to the ongoing effects of a cyber attack. Here are two alternative sources to use for this activity: “A brief guide to British accents and dialects” (a blog post that includes links to short video clips for the different accents and dialects; “A Tour of The Accents of England,” with Dave Huxtable (a YouTube video)
Exercises for File 10.3, pg. 467, Activity #25: How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (New York Times dialect quiz)

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