Dialect Quote by William Labov Download Open image “Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.” — William Labov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dialect Hundred Wells Years
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“I believe it is important to preserve dialects as well as the regional accents of an area. Oral tradition is still necessary and by… — Patricia H. Graham Copy Share Image
I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was. — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I am very good with dialects, but the two that I can't do for some reason are the South African and Australian. — Liev Schreiber Copy Share Image
I never actively went out and studied the American accent. I just came over here to the States, and it was something I was… — KJ Apa Copy Share Image
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting… — William Labov Copy Share Image
“possible topics around which the currents of speech may flow: Death and the danger of death: violence, fighting, sickness, fear, dreams, premonitions and communication… — William Labov Copy Share Image
I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is… — William Labov Copy Share Image
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the… — William Labov Copy Share Image
However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but… — William Labov Copy Share Image
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for… — William Labov Copy Share Image
We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas. — William Labov Copy Share Image
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used… — William Labov Copy Share Image
But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few… — William Labov Copy Share Image
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways,… — William Labov Copy Share Image
Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is… — John Galt Copy Share Image
I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was. — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I can replicate… — Robin Atkin Downes Copy Share Image
I know how a Manipuri is different from a Mizo or someone from Shillong. It's culturally very different... the food is also very different,… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
