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Southern American English

MADAN FLORENTINA

SOUTHERN AMERICAN ENGLISH

Southern American English is a dialect of the English language spoken throughout the Southern region of the United States, from central Kentucky and northern Virginia to the Gulf Coast and from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas. Southern American English can be divided into different sub-dialects, with speech differing between, for example, the Appalachian region and the coastal area around Charleston, South Carolina. The South Midlands dialect was influenced by the migration of Southern dialect speakers into the American West.

The overall Southern dialect generally follows the borders of the Confederate states that broke from the ...

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is historically non-rhotic: it drops the sound of final "r" before a consonant or a word boundary, so that guard sounds similar to god and sore like saw. Intrusive "r", where an "r" sound is inserted between two vowel sounds is not a feature of coastal Southern American English, as it is in many other non-rhotic accents. Non-rhotic is rapidly disappearing from almost all Southern accents, to a greater degree than it has been lost in the other traditionally non-rhotic dialects of the East Coast such as New York and Boston.

Lax and tense vowels often merge before "l", making pairs like feel/fill and fail/fell homophones for speakers in some areas of the South. Some speakers may distinguish between the two sets of words by reversing the normal vowel sound. For instance, "feel" in Southern American English may sound like "fill", and vice versa.

Regardin grammar, the following features are characteristic of both older Southern American English, which underwent massive change ...

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Added: 1/16/2012 08:55:37 AM
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