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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) Pronunciation
Another (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:

  Dennis Baron
 Language legislation, policy and reform; minority languages and dialects; linguistic rights; gender issues in language

Do you Speak American
PBS site, with many articles by linguistics

African American English:

Really excellent starting point with huge biblio

  Homepages of some of the most important scholars in the field:

William Labov

Geneva Smitherman

John Rickford

John Baugh

Interesting article about some of Baugh's research: linguistic profiling


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