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This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion volume to Foreign Dialects-- American Dialects offers representative dialects of every major section of the United States. In each case, a general description and history of the dialect is given, followed by an analysis of vowel and consonant peculiarities, of its individual lilt and rhythm, and of its grammar variations. There are also lists of the idioms and idiomatic expressions that distinguish each dialect and exercises using them. American Dialects also includes musical inflection charts and diagrams showing the placement of lips, tongue, and breath.
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Lewis Herman and Marguerite Shalett Herman compiled this material during more than 25 years of acting, writing, teaching, and studying, in Europe, Hollywood, Chicago, and New York. They also acted and directed for stage, television, radio, and motion pictures.
This standard text, now in paperback for the first time-- the companion volume to Foreign Dialects-- American Dialects offers representative dialects of every major section of the United States. In each case, a general description and history of the dialect is given, followed by an analysis of vowel and consonant peculiarities, of its individual lilt and rhythm, and of its grammar variations. There are also lists of the idioms and idiomatic expressions that distinguish each dialect and exercises using them. American Dialects also includes musical inflection charts and diagrams showing the placement of lips, tongue, and breath.
About the Author
Lewis Herman and Marguerite Shalett Herman compiled this material during more than 25 years of acting, writing, teaching, and studying, in Europe, Hollywood, Chicago, and New York. They also acted and directed for stage, television, radio, and motion pictures.
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Underlying every American regional dialect is a stratum of bedrock that serves as the common foundation for all varieties of American speech. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
important consonant changes, lilt and stress, distinct nasal quality, initial vowel word, medial unstressed, this vowel sound, unstressed vowel sound, certain common words, drill words, preceding vowel sound, final unstressed syllable, more forward position, rural speakers, typical pronunciation, dialect speech, initial unstressed, grammar changes, western drawl, rural speech, unstressed position, torical characters, dialect variants, glottal stop, consonant sound, many highlanders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Underlying every American regional dialect is a stratum of bedrock that serves as the common foundation for all varieties of American speech. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
important consonant changes, lilt and stress, distinct nasal quality, initial vowel word, medial unstressed, this vowel sound, unstressed vowel sound, certain common words, drill words, preceding vowel sound, final unstressed syllable, more forward position, rural speakers, typical pronunciation, dialect speech, initial unstressed, grammar changes, western drawl, rural speech, unstressed position, torical characters, dialect variants, glottal stop, consonant sound, many highlanders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, New England, New York, Middle Western, New Orleans, South Carolina, Shenandoah Valley, United States, West Virginia, North Carolina, Far Western, Houghton Mifflin Company, Ohio River, Rhode Island, New Hampshire New!
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- The Great Big Doorstep (Lost American Fiction) by E. P. O'Donnell on page 90, page 127, and Back Matter
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- English Language in America by George Philip Krapp in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Men of the Mountains by Jesse Stuart in Back Matter
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