ND Dialect

[Dennis R. Preston]

>North Dakota speech was well-studied by Harold Allen of the Univ. of
>Minnesota. Go to your library and get the three-volume Linguistic
>Atlas of the Upper Midwest (LAUM), U. of Minn. Press 1973-76. If
>your library doesn't have this basic material on local speech, sit
>on the steps until they order it.

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>I'm beginning a research project on the dialect of North Dakota
>(specifically I'm looking at its influence on student writing)
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>I'm not asking anyone to do a search for me.  Just can you give me other
>terms I might use in the search besides "North dakota dialect" which
>isn't turning up much?  Is it part of the North central dialect area?
>What other search terms might be helpful?
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>Thanks!
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>Patti Kurtz
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>Dr. Patti J. Kurtz
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>Assistant Professor, English
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>Director of the Writing Center
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>Minot State University
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>Minot, ND 58707
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>Foster: What about our evidence? They've got to take notice of that.
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>Straker: Evidence. What's it going to look like when Henderson claims
>that we manufactured it, just to get a space clearance program?
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>Foster: But we are RIGHT!
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>Straker: Sometimes, Colonel, that's not quite enough.


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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic,
        Asian and African Languages
Wells Hall A-740
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027 USA
Office: (517) 353-0740
Fax: (517) 432-2736