online accent quiz

[Tom Zurinskas]

Thanks Dennis,

So one could have a French accent and a midwestern dialect?  Sounds possible
if you go by your categorizations.

Regards awe-dropping, it may be hopeless without a concerted effort to
change it.  The more the alphabetical principle takes a beating the harder
English is to learn.


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.





>From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
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>Subject: Re: online accent quiz
>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:04:48 -0500
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>Westerners, most Canadians, some Midlanders, some Southerners, many
>New Englanders, many African Americans -- ain't no hope for the
>cot-caught distinction. Now you all know how I feel about
>horse-hoarse and which-witch.
>
>"Accent" is usually the term among dialectologists reserved for the
>phonetic-phonological aspects of dialect or "dialect pronunciation."
>"Foreign accent" or the name of the L1 (e.g., "French accent")
>usually keeps this clear. I ain't real fond of it since 'accent' for
>stress is also around.
>
>dInIs
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> >Someone said to think of "accent" as being from a non-native English
>speaker
> >and "dialect" being from a native English talker.
> >
> >Apparently it's the westerners who are doing the "merging" of vowels
>here.
> >There are a lot of westerners getting into the media and that is creating
>a
> >lot of ah-dropping.  Not good.
> >
> >Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
> >See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.
> >
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> >
> >>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> >>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> >>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >>Subject: online accent quiz
> >>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:38:36 -0500
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> >>Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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> >>for those of you who can't remember where you're from but do remember
> >>how you pronounce your vowels...
> >>http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have
> >>
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