Record phrases that have been passed down through the generations in your family ...

This short paper is a slightly enlarged version of a presentation given at ICSLP4, the Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing at Philadelphia, October 6, 1996. This is the first of a series of reports to the speech recognition industry on the present state of sound changes in the United States. It was not included in the Proceedings of the conference since the central data ...

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A National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English The data base Dialect regions of the United States The taxonomy of American dialects The North The North Central region The Inland North Eastern New England New York City Western New England The South The North Midland The West The Midland cities July 15, 1997 A National Map of The Regional Dialects of American English William Labov, ...