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National map of dialect differences: A linguistics expert, Joshua Katz mapped out the country by the way we say certain words. It includes more than 120 different words and phrases across the U.S.
Based on your responses, the map at right shows the overlap between your speech and the various dialects of American English, as measured by data from the Harvard Dialect Survey, conducted by Bert ...
Joshua Katz, a 28-year-old doctoral student in statistics, drew on his longtime interest in regional dialects to create the online maps for a statistics class project at N.C. State University.
The message is clear, dear global internet marketer, please dig deeper. There are significant opportunities in them there dialects — or rather, regional languages.
Aschmann bases his map and dialect information on the Atlas of North American English, his own research created the names of some of the dialects and made adjustments to their borders.
Then it breaks down how they’ve been used, with maps showing their geographic range. The final volume of the dictionary, which covers S-Z, is being released this month.
Dr. Vaux conducted his analysis of regional dialect in the U.S. through a comprehensive 120-question survey that asked subjects everything from their preference of "you" or "y'all" to whether they ...
UGA professors transcribing interviews to map out, study regional dialects Mia Falcon @realmiafalcon Sep 14, 2016 Updated Oct 19, 2016 ...
There’s a good chance you’ve seen the maps that grad student Josh Katz made depicting regional dialect differences across the U.S. Made with data from the Harvard Dialect Survey conducted by ...
When two dialects bump into each other on the map, she said, “they set up mutual incompatibilities. You can’t just import any old change into any old dialect.