HI Everyone, Thought you'd like to see this great resource.     Roseann



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> From: William Labov <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:42 PM
> Subject: [penguists] Astonishing web site on North American dialects
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> Agata Daleszynska has just alerted me to an extraordinary site developed by
> Rick Aschmann:
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> http://aschmann.net/AmEng/
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>  <http://aschmann.net/AmEng/>Anyone interested in the development of sound
> change in North America should  tune in on Aschmann's site. He has assembled
> You-tube videos in great quantity and mapped their distribution according to
> what is known of the speaker's city and state of origin.  Many of these are
> quite long and have very good sound.  He has absorbed with great attention
> what ANAE has to say and has given full credit, mapping within the NAE
> framework.
> Rick Aschmann describes himself as "a professional linguist and a Christian
> missionary, working in indigenous Amerindian languages. My work has nothing
> to do with English, so that is why this project is just a hobby."
>  Of course many videos will not  show local dialect forms but on first
> sampling I am impressed by what is there. Philadelphia is represented by
> Frank Rizzo 3rd and features the tensing of "bad" vs. lax "dad".
>
> Bill
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