Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:30:13 -0500

From: Beverly Flanigan FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU

Subject: Re: P.S. (Re dialect videos)



I forgot to mention two more series of audiotapes that shouldn't be

missed: One accompanies Shopen and Williams' _Standards and Dialects in

English_ (year?), chapters 7 & 8; it includes lengthy excerpts from the

early CAL tapes of Black English-speaking kids and is esp. good in its

representation of style-shifting by the kids. It also has upper-class

NYC speech (eschewed by Labov) and two wonderful stories told by older

Appalachian English speakers (and authentic, according to my regional

students).



The second series is of course the OSU Language Files tapes, esp. (for

your course) three: one on varied regional pronunciations, a matched

guise test of black and white varieties of Am.Eng., and a collection of

Gullah ("Uncle Remus") tales (with "sounding" examples on the back).