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Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, though concentrated increasingly in more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners.
- Phonetics & Phonology of Southern American English
- Grammar (Syntax) of Southern American English
- Lexicon of Southern American English
Phonetics is the study and classification of speech sounds, and phonology is the study of the relationships between speech sounds. Like any language and/or dialect, speakers of Southern American English demonstrate a particular combination of features that make up what we recognize as their accent. While these are by no means all the linguistic fea...
We're all familiar with grammar, or the way words and phrases come together to make a cohesive sentence. In linguistics this is called syntax. Syntax is another feature of languages and dialects that varies, and the syntax patterns of Southern American English are no different. We'll focus on three major syntactic constructions of SAE here: 1. Migh...
Dialects don't just encompass how we pronounce words and how we arrange them in a sentence; what words we choose also aligns us with a particular speech style. Southern American English has its own vocabulary, called the lexicon. You're probably already familiar with some examples of Southern lexicon: saying buggy instead of cart, the phrase "bless...
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2. Feb. 2024 · What is the Southern accent? Where did it come from? Why are we calling it Southern American English?
15. Sept. 2022 · Yet from extant research, there are certain dialect features that, for many Americans, are socially marked as “Southern”: these include /ay/ ungliding, the front-lax merger, and the front vowel movements of the Southern Vowel Shift, all described in later sections.
Here are some of the key dialects: Lower Southern/Coastal Dialect. This is the classic Southern Drawl you hear on TV and movies based in the American South.
Southern American English (SAE) is one of the most famous dialects in the English-speaking world. We see it in Westerns, soap operas, and blockbuster films: Southern American English is the stereotypical "southern accent" we recognize from the southeastern region of the United States.
