[Ads-l] Yale Grammatical Diversity Project - Slate

[Benjamin Barrett]

I have no idea why I'm supposed to come again. This is an article about 
a project that Laurence Horn is involved in if that helps. BB

> Wilson Gray <mailto:hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> June 29, 2015 at 4:11 PM
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> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Benjamin Barrett<gogaku at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
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>> According to Zanuttini and Horn, the negative reactions many people have
>> to, say, Appalachian varieties of English are not inherent reactions to
>> grammar or word order but rather =E2=80=9Cpersonal judgments about the sp=
> eakers
>> who use them.=E2=80=9D Often, such judgments are the result of recency or
>> incorrectness illusions, the assumption that a nonstandard expression is
>> nascent, when in fact it has been around for decades, or just wrong.
>>
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> Come again?
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> Benjamin Barrett <mailto:gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM>
> June 29, 2015 at 3:38 PM
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> Subject: Yale Grammatical Diversity Project - Slate
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> http://slate.me/1Hr6vCD
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> Caroline Zola discusses the project in "Documenting the Diversity of
> American English."
>
> One snippet:
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> According to Zanuttini and Horn, the negative reactions many people have
> to, say, Appalachian varieties of English are not inherent reactions to
> grammar or word order but rather âEURoepersonal judgments about the 
> speakers
> who use them.âEUR? Often, such judgments are the result of recency or
> incorrectness illusions, the assumption that a nonstandard expression is
> nascent, when in fact it has been around for decades, or just wrong.
> =====
>

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