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Damian Fleming
John Carroll University
History of the English
Language (EN 488)
HEL Syllabi:
EN 488 FALL 2007
EN 488 FALL 2006
HELish Links:
Traditional Grammar (primarily
terminology) Helps:
Peter
Baker's Intro to Basic Grammar (from Introduction
to Old English)A.G. Rigg's Traditional Grammatical Terminology Samuel Johnson on Blackadder the Third International Phonetic Alphabet
Pages (with Audio!):
International
Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) PronunciationAnother (great for vowels and diphthongs) IPA Page And another IPA page Speech Accent Archive (an awsome website that has audio and phonetic transcription of native and non-native speakers of English reading the same paragraph) Dialects (accurate, and not so much) Newfie Nissan Commercial Do You Speak American pt 1 http://www.rattlingbooks.com/ Gullah http://youtube.com/watch?v=fOIM1_xOSro Irvine Welsh Some
links on current topics in HEL: Language legislation, policy and reform; minority languages and dialects; linguistic rights; gender issues in language Do you Speak
American African
American
English:
Really excellent starting point with huge biblio Interesting article about some of Baugh's research: linguistic profiling
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