This course/repository is based on recent studies into dialectal variation of PDE, in particular on two recently finished projects: William Labov's Atlas of North American English and the Mouton de Gruyter publication 'Varieties of English'.
The class involves the discussion of:
- Vowel Systems across the varieties of English
- Transcription Systems
- Principles of Sound Change
- Morpho-Syntactic Variation in PDE
- PDE Pidgins and Creoles
