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When you think about Texas, you think about cowboys and cattle. You don't think about cotton and slavery. But, that's in the history of this dry, f...

Discusses linguistic discrimination of African American dialects and a court case that has helped to prevent further discrimination based on langua...

Discusses the linguistic profiling research of John Baugh. Linguistic profiling is when are discriminated against on the basis of perceived dialect...

Bill Labov discusses the Northern Cities Vowel Shift in American English.

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While the language we speak on the streets of our cities...

Discusses Dennis Preston's dialect attitude research (how do people feel about certain dialects). The Midland dialect is most commonly considered "...

Bill Labov talks about the shift in Standard from a RP (Received Pronunciation) influenced r-less pronunciation to a r-full (i.e. rhotic) pronuncia...

UNT war protest