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Declarations Of Independents - Spirit Of Place

Yeah You Rite: Speech patterns in New Orleans & their...

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3 major dialects: downtown white, uptown white/educated upper class, and the black...

3 major dialects: downtown white, uptown white/educated upper class, and the black dialect. Different wards, different dialects. Impression that if you speak in a "non-standard" dialect, you are ignorant, uneducated. If one tries to change one's pattern of speech and/or actually DOES change pattern of speech, there is danger of no longer being accepted by old friends.

12/01/1988

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Songs in Minto Life

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Clip: Ep1 | 25m 14s | The songs of the Minto people in rural Alaska are their history, their literature... (25m 14s)

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