American Tongues

(56 min., 1987, VC 1013)

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Tangier Island, Virginia

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An examination of regional, social, and ethnic differences in American speech and the attitudes and prejudices people have concerning these differences. Dialect variations in pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and language functions are illustrated with indications as to the reasons for the differences.

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