Hella Nor Cal or Totally So Cal? The Perceptual Dialectology of California

摘要: This study provides the first detailed account of perceptual dialectology within California (as well as one accounts any single state). Quantitative analysis a map-labeling task carried out in Southern reveals that California's most salient linguistic boundary is between northern and southern regions state. Whereas studies United States whole have focused almost exclusively on regional dialect differences, respondents associated particular less with distinctive dialects than differences language (English versus Spanish), slang use, social groups. The diverse sociolinguistic situation reflected emphasis both highly groups thought to be stereotypical by residents nonresidents alike (e.g., surfers) that, though prominent cultural landscape state, remain largely unrecognized b...