Date:  Mon, 3 Oct 1994 10:44:56 -0400

From:  "William A. Kretzschmar, Jr." <billk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ATLAS.UGA.EDU>

Subject: Re: dialect leveling



The first citation that I know about for the effects of army personnel on

dialect is McDavid's "Postvocalic -r in South Carolina: A Social

Analysis" (AmSp 23, 1948), which suggests that the influx of army people

might be changing patterns of use of -r in SC. The best recent article is,

I think, J. K. Chambers' article in *Language* (1992) called "Dialct

Acquisition", which is the product of a long period of work and has lots

of references.



Regards, Bill

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