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SUMMARY:College Town Conversations: Wicked Smaaht - Dialect Changes and Variation in New England English
DESCRIPTION:Professor James Stanford discusses regional New England 
 dialects and their evolution over time. This is a hybrid event.  Join us in 
 person in the Mayer Room or online via Zoom. No registration required in 
 person\; register for Zoom here.\n\nWhat is the current status of 
 traditional New England dialect features and their current geographic 
 distribution? Are dialect subregions of earlier eras still present today or 
 have they changed? When and why might the Founder Effect (the tendency of 
 dialectal and social boundaries of early settlements to persist for many 
 generations) dissipate in a given region? To answer these questions\, our 
 ten-year Dartmouth research project collected linguistic data from speakers 
 in all six New England states. This talk describes what we found and how it 
 relates to other researchers’ work across New England.\n\nJames N. 
 Stanford is Professor and Chair of the Dartmouth Linguistics Department. He 
 uses quantitative research methods to study dialects and language variation 
 across a wide range of language communities\, including collabora-tive 
 research with small\, underrepresented Indigenous minority communities in 
 China and around the world. He also studies dialect features of the large 
 English majority language communities of New England. He is co-editor of 
 the journal Language Variation and Change (Cambridge University Press\, 
 with William Labov and Rena Torres Cacoullos). His publications include the 
 2019 Oxford University Press monograph New England English: Large-Scale 
 Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology\, and co-edited volumes such as 
 Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages (2009\, with Dennis 
 Preston).\n\nJoin Meeting: 
 https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAscO-vqTkrEtCNbXm9SasoCroak1bn7UWK
LOCATION:Mayer Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Jared Jenisch":MAILTO:jared.jenisch@thehowe.org
CATEGORIES:Adult
CONTACT;CN="Jared Jenisch":MAILTO:jared.jenisch@thehowe.org
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