Date:  Mon, 3 Oct 1994 16:05:00 EDT

From:  Travis Kidd <TKIDD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CLEMSON.EDU>

Subject: Re: dialect leveling



On Mon, 3 Oct 1994 10:44:56 -0400 "William A. Kretzschmar, Jr." <billk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ATLAS.UGA

.EDU> said:

> The first citation that I know about for the effects of army personnel on

> dialect is McDavid's "Postvocalic -r in South Carolina: A Social

> Analysis" (AmSp 23, 1948), which suggests that the influx of army people

> might be changing patterns of use of -r in SC. The best recent article is,

> I think, J. K. Chambers' article in *Language* (1992) called "Dialct

> Acquisition", which is the product of a long period of work and has lots

> of references.

As a South Carolinian, I would like to know what you are talking about!



> Regards, Bill

> University of Georgia      Internet: billk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]hyde.park.uga.edu

> Athens, GA 30602-6205      Bitnet:  wakjengl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga

-Travis



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