Word: dialectically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of the national debate over whether Ebonics is a language of its own accord or merely a dialect, what class could be more timely than Linguistics 80: "Dialects of English...
Vaux will also show films of various dialects and even bring in native speakers. And there are no papers and no exams--just a midterm project on your own dialect and a final project on your own dialect and a final project on a native Bostonian's speaking style...
...donor-poor country. But the ultimate compensation -- justice -- eludes them still. A court has acquitted the two men charged in the shooting death, agreeing with the defense's argument that a recorded conversation allegedly identifying Francesco Mesiano and Michele Iannello as the murderers was too chock full of regional dialect to serve as intelligible evidence. Police charged that the pair had mistaken the Greens' rental car for a robbery target, forced the car off the road and then fired into the vehicle, hitting young Nicholas in the brain. In the end, despite evidence linking Iannello...
...loved the serious dialect of each [reading], and the sense of region coming through each-Long Island, North Carolina, Ireland...," Sacks said...
Sogra was settled in the 1400s, and many of its inhabitants speak a centuries-old dialect of Russian. Places like this one, home to perhaps a quarter of Russia's population, are popularly known as the glubinka--the depths of the countryside. And like other such villages, Sogra is in crisis. Ten births--and 50 deaths--have been recorded this year. Vodka is one of the main killers. Of the 2,900 people in the area, 1,100 are pensioners. Forty percent of the working-age residents do not have jobs. The village's main employer, a logging combine, went...