Re: Diphthongs

Quoting David Stokes <dstokes@...>:

> Besides: There is not one single "Texas Accent"; but a number of
> accents mixed across the state.
True, but Texas doesn't have anywhere near the kind of dialect
diversity like you would see in, say, Virginia.

> In my UT linguistics class we had to take data
> for the Texas Dialect Survey. Does anyone know where I can find
> results of this study?
I remember using this once in our undergrad sociolinguistics
course.  As for where it is:  probably in the Hill Library on
campus, and nowhere else, if I had to guess.

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