(nSc) Linguistics Survey

Jul 14, 2002, 5:11 PM ET5 posts by 3 posters
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Kevin Madden

It's an intersting project. The survey seems to be more concerned with accents and dialects rather than grammar and slang, which is what it seems like it would be about. He lists every accent and dialect that I can think of and then calls them all non-standard and asks you to rate the acceptability of each one. He goes into detail about specific features of some of these. It seems more like a survey to measure the biases of people of one culture or region to the speech patterns of those of another.

The last half of the survey is not bad, discussing slang, profanity and other types of speech where his defining line between standard and non-standard seems clear and reasonable. And at the end there is an area to express your feelings about the questions and survey.

I just thought I would share in case anyone was considering helping the guy out, but wasn't sure if it was worth the time.

Kevin

ALewis525Kevin Madden

It showed up as an ugly attachment on my end, so I deleted it. Was there a webpage mentioned?

Austin

Kevin MaddenALewis525

No, it was just a word document with instructions and an email address to send the answers to (the same address he posted with). If you want it I can paste the text into an email and send it to you. Just let me know.

Kevin

ALewis525Kevin Madden

Yeah, he emailed me the survey after he saw my message. I already sent it back to him. Thanks for offering to help though.

Austin

KatijaikatKevin Madden

After seeing that this was a survey that involves regional accents, it got me curious (as I have a weird snarky regional one). Do you think you could send the text to me as well, Kevin?