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to give up Georgia, African American, or New York varieties of English for something less socially marked, or are they incapable ...

me, my vowels pretty much stayed put, but when I looked up from my papers and spoke extemporaneously, my vowels started to move: ...

musical ability have not established a connection, while other studies “have identified mimicry ability as a significant predict ...

If a person is very dedicated, works hard, and has good guidance, it may be possible to fool some of the people some of the time ...

What does the idea of style shifting do to the Sound House analogy? Many people are bilingual or multilingual, and for each lang ...

2 For a longer, very interesting discussion about THANKSgiving, see Language Log at http://goo.gl/sYOju. 3 Dialect is a term whi ...

Suggested further reading Derwing and Munro’s Putting Accent in Its Place: Rethinking Obstacles to Communication (2009) provides ...

The Standard Language Myth 4 I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men’s minds without ...

have not to do with grammar in the way it has been defined here, but with matters of punctuation. No matter the topic, the tone ...

Figure 4.1 Bad grammar destroys nations ...

The idea of a standard language is constructed and re-constructed on an on-going basis by those who have a vested interest in th ...

Standard American English: the English that with respect to spelling, grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary is substantially un ...

are ordered. “Usage dictates acceptability,” he is reported as saying. “There is no other non-arbitrary way to decide” (Nemy 199 ...

The rationale for this ordering derives at least in part from the perceived superiority of the written language. Persons with mo ...

extreme complaints ... is authoritarian and, seemingly, transcendental” (Milroy 1999: 20). The most extreme ideological definiti ...

Figure 4.2 Ratings of the fifty states, New York City, and Washington, DC, for language “correctness” on a scale of 1 to 52 (low ...

Most interesting perhaps is the incredibly high level of consistency in the way his subjects found a lack of correct English in ...

hypothetical Standard is not spoken (the South, New York City), are the logical home of accent. From this assumption it follows ...

subordinate is different from normal. And so it is with accent ... People in power are perceived as speaking normal, unaccented ...

“Standardness” and “non-standardness” are too deeply ingrained into sociolinguistic theory and methods for us to dispense with r ...