A rural/metropolitan split in the speech of Texas Anglos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5773942 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elaine R Thomas (0000-0002-8737-4819, North Carolina State University, corresponding author), Erik R Thomas |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 309-332 |
| Publication date | 1997-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Variation and Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-3945 • E-ISSN: 1469-8021 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0954394500001940 |
| OpenAlex | W2155219921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 59 |
The migration of people to the Sunbelt in the United States constitutes a major demographic shift, but has received little attention from language variationists. In Texas, this migration has led to a split of the Anglo population of the state into two dialects, a rural dialect and a metropolitan dialect. Evidence from a random-sample survey of Texas and from a systematic set of surveys of high schools in the state shows that young rural Anglos preserve two stereotypical features of the Texas accent, monophthongal /ai/, as in night , and lowered onsets of /e/, as in day , while young Anglos from metropolitan centers lack these features. This difference, which is absent among middle-aged and older native Texan Anglos, appears to have resulted from the fact that in-migration from other parts of the country is concentrated in metropolitan centers, especially suburbs
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