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...student of regional U.S. speaking habits, McDavid himself comes from South Carolina, and he has a purpose in all this random conversation. He is helping gather material for the multi-volume Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada which Philologist Hans Kurath is directing from the University of Michigan. The Atlas will trace lines of speech similarities ("isoglosses") on detailed sectional maps, and will take several more years to finish. Meanwhile, research already done on McDavid's beat provides a preview of the sort of thing the atlas-makers hope to do for the whole northern continent...
...Linguistic Atlas was planned in 1925 by Austrian-born Dr. Hans Kurath, 41, onetime German teacher at Texas. Northwestern and Ohio State Universities. The American Council of Learned Societies began financing it in 1931; Yale University was its first home but Brown University offered more spacious quarters. Dr. Kurath is now chairman of Brown's Germanic languages department. The Linguistic Atlas began expediting its work last autumn with a new, cheap recording instrument which makes aluminum discs playable on any phonograph. A pioneer recorder, not actively connected with the Atlas, is Barnard's Professor William Cabell Greet...
Leaders in the work are Professor Hans Kurath (German, Linguistics) of Ohio State University and Professor Miles Lawrence Hanley (English) of the University of Wisconsin, also a linguistic worker is Professor William Cabell Greet (English) of Barnard College and Columbia University, who has made many a phonographic recording to preserve in handy form the essential characteristics of U.S. dialects (TIME...
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