24.1615, Media: Raleigh, NC, has Nearly Lost its Southern Accent

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LINGUIST List: Vol-24-1615. Tue Apr 09 2013. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 24.1615, Media: Raleigh, NC, has Nearly Lost its Southern Accent

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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:21:21
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Raleigh, NC, has Nearly Lost its Southern Accent

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http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=24-1615.html&submissionid=10707599&topicid=21&msgnumber=1
 A longitudinal sociophonetics investigation called the Raleigh Study has confirmed that due to an influx of out-of-state workers the city has lost its Southern drawl, resulting in an opportunity for interesting sociolinguistic case study.

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/04/08/2806388/raleigh-has-lost-its-drawl-yall.html#storylink=cpy
 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics



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