Linguistics 165

American Dialects

Instructor: William Labov

Email: labov@comcast.net
Office: Linguistics Lab, 3810 Market

T.A.: Aaron Freeman

Email: aaronfr@sas.upenn.edu
Office: Linguistics Lab, 3810 Market

Meetings

Class: Mon 3:30-5:00,Wms 1
Sections: Wed 3:30-5:00
Section 1 : Wms 1
Section 2: Linguistics Lab

Syllabus

Phonetics

Wikipedia: Vowel
IPA Charts (Paul Meier)

Scott Turow: Legally Speaking Pt 2

Readings
Atlas of North American English

ANAE 1: Introduction
ANAE 2: The North American English Vowel System
ANAE 12: The fronting of back upgliding vowels
ANAE 14: The North
ANAE 15: Canada
ANAE 16: New England
ANAE 17: NYC & Mid-Atlantic States
ANAE 18: The South
ANAE 19: The Midland
ANAE 20: The West
ANAE 21: Lexical and grammatical maps
ANAE 22: African Americans