Wolf Humanities Center's 2008-2009 Forum on Change
October 15, 2008
William Labov
Professor of Linguistics and Director, Linguistics Laboratory
University of Pennsylvania
It was widely expected that the dialects of American English would converge and ultimately disappear as the influence of the mass media grew. But just the reverse has happened: the recently completed Atlas of North American English shows an increasing diversity in regional dialects today. This lecture describes changes in the speech of an area roughly corresponding to the Blue States in politics. The “Northern Cities Shift,” surprisingly, is an effect of nineteenth-century Yankee norms of education, industry, and propriety.
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