Do you speak American? Up North

Robert MacNeil canvasses the North to learn firsthand about linguistic dialect zones, the tension between prescriptivism and descriptivism, the impact on dialect, the northern cities vowel shift, the roots of African-American English, minority linguistic profiling, biases against nonstandard speech,...

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Main Authors: Cran, William (Author, Producer, Director), MacNeil, Robert, 1931- (Author), Foss, Paul (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, Paladin InVision, Ltd, WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), KLRU (Television station : Austin, Tex.)
Other Authors: Buchanan, Christopher (Producer), Cassidy, Orlagh (Narrator), Palmer, Allan, Frost, Joe (Editor)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2005.
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An English-speaking world

Published 2007
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