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    Pilar Sánchez-Regalado
    The document discusses the linguistic aspects and cultural perspectives of the Texas dialect. It covers historical context from 1520-1845 and highlights noticeable linguistic features like vowel breaking and diphthong dropping. Examples of Texas vocabulary and their meanings are provided. The social perceptions and prejudices toward Southern dialect speakers are also examined.

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    The document discusses the linguistic aspects and cultural perspectives of the Texas dialect. It covers historical context from 1520-1845 and highlights noticeable linguistic features like vowel breaking and diphthong dropping. Examples of Texas vocabulary and their meanings are provided. The social perceptions and prejudices toward Southern dialect speakers are also examined.

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    The document discusses the linguistic aspects and cultural perspectives of the Texas dialect. It covers historical context from 1520-1845 and highlights noticeable linguistic features like vowel breaking and diphthong dropping. Examples of Texas vocabulary and their meanings are provided. The social perceptions and prejudices toward Southern dialect speakers are also examined.

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    The document discusses the linguistic aspects and cultural perspectives of the Texas dialect. It covers historical context from 1520-1845 and highlights noticeable linguistic features like vowel breaking and diphthong dropping. Examples of Texas vocabulary and their meanings are provided. The social perceptions and prejudices toward Southern dialect speakers are also examined.

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    C T

    A LE
    E DI
    TH
    IT
    E IS
    H ER
    W
    L K
    E TA
    L
    OP
    PE
    A Y
    W
    H IS
    T
    Y ?
    C TL
    A
    EX
    HISTORICAL

    CONTEXT

    1845

    1520-1530 1821 1836


    Vamos pa
    la beach
    THE MOST INTERESTING AND

    NOTICEABLE LINGUISTIC ASPECTS

    VOWEL BREAKING
    THE
    THE BAD
    PIN
    BAY-UHD
    PE-UHN
    KEE-UHD
    KID
    TWANG
    TWANG Monophthong Diphtong

    AE IOU
    THE MOST INTERESTING AND

    NOTICEABLE LINGUISTIC ASPECTS

    Country
    music
    THE
    THE
    TWANG
    TWANG
    Narrowing the
    cartilages in
    NASAL-LIKE BUT NO NASAL the shape of a
    funnel
    THE MOST INTERESTING AND

    NOTICEABLE LINGUISTIC ASPECTS

    THE
    THE SORRY,
    NARROWING WHAT NOW?
    TWANG
    TWANG
    In simpler
    words
    THE MOST INTERESTING AND

    NOTICEABLE LINGUISTIC ASPECTS

    More common
    The "Ahh"
    "A" "MY MOM WENT TO THE
    dropping
    dropping the LIBRARY"
    the
    dipthong
    dipthong
    /ai/ /a/ or /ɑ / Less common
    "MAH MOM WENT TO
    THE LAHBRARY"

    (Guy Bailey, linguist)


    THE MOST INTERESTING AND

    NOTICEABLE LINGUISTIC ASPECTS

    Examples
    Examples of
    diphtong drop
    diphtongs drop
    and
    and twang
    THE MOST INTERESTING AND

    NOTICEABLE LINGUISTIC ASPECTS


    TRY TO GUESS THE MEANING

    Vocabulary
    Vocabulary Examples

    Fixin' to Fixin' to go to fix the bathroom

    Bless
    Oh, honey you dropped your ice cream, bless
    your/her/... heart your heart

    All hat, no cattle Ain't nothing to fear, he's all hat, no


    cattle
    THE MOST INTERESTING AND

    NOTICEABLE LINGUISTIC ASPECTS

    Vocabulary
    Vocabulary Meaning

    Fixin' to To be about to do
    something

    Bless Someone is dumb or stupid


    your/her/... heart

    All hat, no cattle To be all bark and no bite


    A KEY ASPECT OF COUNTRY MUSIC
    A CULTURAL & SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE

    PRECONCEPTIONS & PREJUDICE

    OF THE TEXAN & SOTHERN

    DIALECT SPEAKERS
    WARM AND INVITING
    Go back to Oh no!
    farming!!! Excuse my
    english

    Y'all are all


    hat, no cattle
    BIBLIOGRAPHY
    https://www.history.com/topics/us-
    states/texas

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/3087917?
    seq=6#metadata_info_tab_contents
    Mucha info

    https://www.texasobserver.org/886-
    talking-texan-yalls-drawls-and-
    monophthongs/

    https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/alabamalinguisti
    cs/?p=45

    Texan english speakers audios KAHOOT https://create.kahoot.it/share/how-much-do-


    you-know-about-texas-and-its-dialect/59f723fe-
    7405-42d8-9aed-dc2b9a9c056a

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