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Saturday, March 29, 2003
Help a Harvard professor create a linguistics map of the United States - JAMES A. FUSSELL, Kansas City Star
Regardless of what you say or how you say it, Bert Vaux, an associate linguistics professor at Harvard University, would like a moment of your time. Vaux (rhymes with hawks) is conducting an online survey to map the differences in America's speech patterns. The survey, which will be used to compile an atlas of English dialects, has no right or wrong answers. It simply seeks to discover distinct dialectical differences in pronunciation, grammar and usage. For each question (for example, do you say route to rhyme with hoot or out?) a respondent's answer is represented on a map by a tiny colored dot. Get enough of the same colored dots in one place and linguistic patterns start to emerge. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/index.html
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