Friday, October 05, 2007

NEW ENGLAND DIALECTS

The Dialects of Northern New England

They examine dialect variation in New Hampshire, Vermont, and the bordering region of Quebec, looking particularly at variation that can be attributed to patterns of migration of various ethnic groups.
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Describing the dialects of Northern New England

The Boston accent is among the most well-known in America, and the most frequently mentioned aspects of it are "dropped R's" and the fronted vowel in phrases like park the car. Very little scholarly research about the dialects of Massachusetts and New Hampshire has been published since the Linguistic Atlas of New England in the 1930's.

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EASTERN NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL DIALECT

The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.

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New England Algonquian Language Revival
A series of articles by Dr. Frank Waabu O'Brien, Aquidneck Indian Council


NATIVE LANGUAGES PAGE


The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas



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A List of Words That are Unique to New England


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New England phonology


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