- American Dialect Society
Scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
www.americandialect.org
- Dictionary of American Regional English
Online American English dictionary, specializing in local slang and regional words and phrases.
polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html
- AmeriSpeak
Dictionary of expressions of our American ancestors and phrases that have been passed down through the generations.
www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/amerispeak.htm
- Linguistic Atlas Projects
Details on studies of regional linguistic patterns in the U.S.
us.english.uga.edu
- National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English
Describes the dialect regions of the United States.
www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/NationalMap/NationalMap.html
- Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America
Text of a paper presented by William Labov in 1996.
www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ICSLP4.html
- American Dialect Homepage
Describes regional varieties of English in the United States of America and Canada and includes links to other web resources.
www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialhome.html
- Linguistic Geography of the United States
Discussion of eight major dialects in American English and their geographic boundaries.
www.evolpub.com/Americandialects/AmDialMap.html
- Community Language Collection
Audio and text clips, graphics, and full transcripts from 40 speakers of American dialects from New York to Georgia, with most from North Carolina.
www.uncc.edu/english/clc
- Harvard Dialect Survey
Uses a series of questions, including rhyming word pairs and vocabulary words, to explore words and sounds in the English language.
hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect
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