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Texan Accent

Texan Accent. Location. Texas is the second-largest state in the U.S. Area: almost 270.000 square miles Population: 24.7 million residents. Pronunciation. The dipthong /aɪ/ becomes monopthongized to /a:/: ride [ra:d], wide [wa:d] Southern drawl: breaking of the front vowels

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Texan Accent

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  1. TexanAccent

  2. Location • Texas is the second-largest state in the U.S. • Area: almost 270.000 square miles • Population: 24.7 million residents

  3. Pronunciation • The dipthong /aɪ/ becomes monopthongized to /a:/: ride [ra:d], wide [wa:d] • Southern drawl: breaking of the front vowels pat [pæjə], pet [pejə], pit [pɪjə] • /z/ becomes /d/ before /n/ wasn’t [wʌdnt], business [bɪdnɪs] exception: hasn’t [hæzənt]

  4. Drop /g/ in “ing” taking /teɪkɪŋ/, walking /wɔ:kɪŋ/

  5. GrammarFeatures • 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

  6. Use of ever instead of every. ever’where’s is the same place these days. • Use of (a-) fixin’ to or fixin’ to with the meaning about to. the plane’s fixin’ to land.

  7. Commonexpressions • Howdy: a general greeting. A shortened form of how do you do? • Di’jeet’yet: did you eat yet? • Ol’ boy: a good friend • Looker: an atractive woman

  8. Y’all: you all • Over Yonder: analogous to “over there” • Coke: Any flavor of soda.

  9. Conversion of one-syllable words into two-syllable words. big: bee-yug. pen: pee-yun. cat: ca-yut.

  10. Conversion of “ing” into “ang” finger fanger sing sang things thangs

  11. script • “Amarillo, Texas. Ah, North Texas, up in the panhandle. Twenty-two. In Huntsville, Texas. I am going to Sam Houston State University. I’ll be starting my junior year in the fall. Yeah, I have a younger sister that’s nineteen, and a brother that’s twelve and a brother that’s six. And my parents are divorced, so I have lived with my mom and my dad, my step-dad since I was five. So I’m not very close to my real dad. Well my mom is white and my dad was Hispanic and since I didn’t really get to know him, I probably am the most whitest Mexican you’ve ever met in your life. No. No, I don’t even like Mexican food.”

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