US folk: map your language use
Monday, March 26th, 2018 02:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kU.S. language research!
It's happening now:
https://www.dialectsofenglish.com
I answered fifty questions and they really made me think. The survey offers various vocabulary and pronunciation options--you can choose one or all, and add chatty comments.
Based on the first box you tick, the survey shows a "heat map" (inaccessible to screen readers) where they think you're from.
Not surprisingly, my language is mixed: most often from Wisconsin and Boston-area.
It's happening now:
https://www.dialectsofenglish.com
I answered fifty questions and they really made me think. The survey offers various vocabulary and pronunciation options--you can choose one or all, and add chatty comments.
Based on the first box you tick, the survey shows a "heat map" (inaccessible to screen readers) where they think you're from.
Not surprisingly, my language is mixed: most often from Wisconsin and Boston-area.
Re: /dons deerstalker/
Date: 2018-03-28 03:35 am (UTC)But he does say "My new American dialect survey" on Twitter, so... Shrug
ETA: Oh, he was part of the team behind the Harvard survey in 2003! (Or, he says, leading it.) OK. Well then.
See also here and here. This whole American regionalism thing seems weird, given his Armenian-and-so-on focus, but it seems to have been an offshoot of one of his intro Harvard classes.