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’ve made an informal survey for certain pronunciations that seem on a first glance to be prevalent among college-aged people in California and among younger people in other regions as well. My question is twofold:
- Are these regional phenomena? If so, are they spreading?
- Is there a better correlation with ethnolinguistic background than with region alone?
If you’re interested, click here to take it. Yes, I know it’s unscientific, but I don’t have NSF grants or anything, and I want a possible idea to go on.
4 responses so far ↓
galoisien // Monday, 3 December 2007 at 20:17 |
There’s a bit of a bug in the survey — apparently the script won’t allow me to check as having both parents born inside the diaspora (but outside the “home country”).
Also, how would you classify an English-based creole speaker?
Epeuthutebetes // Wednesday, 5 December 2007 at 2:54 |
galoisien — You’re right, I’ll have to go back and fix it. As for creole speakers, I hadn’t considered that. For the purposes of this survey we’ll say creoles are closer to non-English than to English.
bob // Friday, 30 October 2009 at 7:03 |
I couldn’t get past question 3. Even though I had checked an answer, it said that an answer was required. I couldn’t figure out how to get around this glitch.
Lue-Yee Tsang // Saturday, 31 October 2009 at 9:24 |
I really ought to fix it or take it down, but I have grad school apps and all that to think about.