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American Voices How Dialects Differ from coast to coast_08

Tham khảo tài liệu 'american voices how dialects differ from coast to coast_08', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | island seems like a recipe for the decline and eventual death of the Smith Island dialect. Interestingly though just the opposite is occurring. The dialect has actually become more - rather than less - distinct from surrounding varieties over the course of several generations and it is holding its own today even among its youngest speakers. For example pronunciation features like the long i and ow sounds mentioned above have increased dramatically in frequency in the past half century or so as have such grammatical features as using it for there. Also on the rise is another interesting grammatical feature - the use of weren t for past tense to be in negative sentences regardless of subject person and number as in It weren t me She weren t home They weren t there . The use of the were stem for all subjects does not extend to affirmative contexts where things are fairly standard we are far more likely to hear I was you were and he was than I were or he were. It is not at all uncommon in vernacular dialects for speakers to regularize irregular verbs like to be by using one form for all persons and numbers even though standard English might dictate the use of two or more forms. For example constructions like you was and they was are commonplace as is ain t for all forms of negative present to be. However using weren t for all subjects is rare in American English and has been found in only a handful of mid-Atlantic and Southern dialects to date. Despite its rarity its usage has increased dramatically on the island in the past couple generations further contributing to the heightening distinctiveness of the dialect. Because the dialect is becoming stronger as fewer and fewer people speak it we classify it as a case of dialect concentration as contrasted with the dialect dissipation that usually occurs when formerly isolated communities come into contact with the wider world. Although it is not uncommon for speakers in such communities to heighten their usage levels of .