Naomi Nagy

Linguistics at U of T

Multimedia Resources on New England Accents

Cassettes

How to talk Yankee. A Downeast Foreign Language Record featuring Bob Bryan & Tim Sample. Bert and I, Inc. 1983.

A short course of the language and them that speaks it. Fritz Wetherbee.

Down East New England Dialect Tape. David Alan Stern. Samuel French.

Videos

American Tongues. Andrew Kolker and Louis Alvarez New York: Center for New American Media. 1987.

Television and Radio

Car Talk 3/8/1995. An accent special "sponsored by the Hyundai Accent"

Chronicle 7/20/1998. "New England Dialects."

Websites

"Turnin' back the clock on talk." Concord Monitor. 9/15/2002. http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/community/news2002/nh%5Faccent%5F2002.shtml

Boston English. http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/

The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English. http://www.bu.edu/mfeldman/Boston/wicked.html

 

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