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).