Southern Dialect Pt 1

This is what happens when I sit in a chair and someone asks me to breakdown 20 years of dialect research in a couple minutes. Broad generalizations which can’t possibly apply to everyone in a given region.

That said, in this video I attempt to loosely define the two most distinctive American Southern accents - rhotic or “r” pronouncing Mountain Southern, and non-rhotic or “r” dropping Plantation or Tidewater Southern. For the most part, you don’t find the latter in mountain regions or much of the former living near the water.

Dialects can vary GREATLY within each of these regions, so for specific authentic regional and socio-economic variations of the two broad dialects discussed in this video, go to www.dialectdatabase.com and listen to my recordings of 27 different individuals from all over the American South who’ve never set foot outside their hometowns.

No offense to po-ass white guys from Ireland and Scotland who’s families settled in the mountains of the American South. I’ve spent some of the highest points of my life in those mountains, making music with po-ass white guys.

See http://www.elizajane.com/music.html for proof.

- Eliza

Видео Southern Dialect Pt 1 канала Eliza Jane