Texan accent
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Texas is the second largest state in the U.S. with an area of almost 270,000 square miles and a population of 24.7 million residents. The document discusses various phonological and grammatical features of Southern American English dialects, including vowel changes, dropping or changing consonants, use of past participles instead of past simple verbs, double modals, and distinctive greetings and words used in parts of the South. It then provides a script about a 22-year-old white female student from Amarillo, Texas who is attending college and shares details about her family background and upbringing.
![The dipthong /a肘/ becomes monopthongized to /a:/: ride [ra:d], wide [wa:d] Southern drawl: breaking of the front vowels pat [p 脱j], pet [pej], pit [p肘j] /z/ becomes /d/ before /n/ wasnt [w dnt], business [ b肘dn肘s] exception: hasnt [ h脱znt]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/texanaccent-101209035234-phpapp02/85/Texan-accent-4-320.jpg)
Texan accent
- 1. 油
- 2. Texas is the second-largest state in the U.S. Area: almost 270.000 square miles Population: 24.7 million residents
- 3. 油
- 4. The dipthong /a肘/ becomes monopthongized to /a:/: ride [ra:d], wide [wa:d] Southern drawl: breaking of the front vowels pat [p 脱j], pet [pej], pit [p肘j] /z/ becomes /d/ before /n/ wasnt [w dnt], business [ b肘dn肘s] exception: hasnt [ h脱znt]
- 5. Drop /g/ in ing taking / te肘k肘/, walking /w:k肘/
- 6. Use of past participle in place of past simple. I only done what you done told me I seen her first use of was in place of were. you was sittin on that chair Use of double modals. he might could climb the top i used to could do that
- 7. Use of ever instead of every. everwheres is the same place these days. Use of (a-) fixin to or fixin to with the meaning about to. the planes fixin to land.
- 8. Howdy : a general greeting. A shortened form of how do you do? Dijeetyet : did you eat yet? Ol boy : a good friend Looker : an atractive woman
- 9. Yall : you all Over Yonder: analogous to over there Coke: Any flavor of soda.
- 10. Conversion of one-syllable words into two-syllable words. big: bee-yug. pen: pee-yun. cat: ca-yut.
- 11. Conversion of ing into ang finger fanger sing sang things thangs
- 12. script Amarillo, Texas. Ah, North Texas, up in the panhandle. Twenty-two. In Huntsville, Texas. I am going to Sam Houston State University. Ill be starting my junior year in the fall. Yeah, I have a younger sister thats nineteen, and a brother thats twelve and a brother thats six. And my parents are divorced, so I have lived with my mom and my dad, my step-dad since I was five. So Im not very close to my real dad. Well my mom is white and my dad was Hispanic and since I didnt really get to know him, I probably am the most whitest Mexican youve ever met in your life. No. No, I dont even like Mexican food.