Tham khảo tài liệu 'american voices how dialects differ from coast to coast_03', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 8 Sounds of Ole Man River Memphis TN Valerie Fridland 8 Paddle steamer docked on the Mississippi river. by Dan Brandenburg. When people from outside the South learn I grew up in Memphis Tennessee I inevitably get the comment You don t sound like you re from Memphis - what happened to your accent As I consider myself a true native my response is always to ask for a description of what a Memphian sounds like. You know you don t have that. . that twang is what usually emerges as people realize they don t really know what a Memphian or a Southerner for that matter specifically talks like except that they know one when they hear one. Non-Southerners in fact are generally not very good at separating out the different dialects spoken within the South viewing us as one mass lump on the American dialect landscape. While Southern dialects share much linguistically and historically intra-regional varieties are also quite salient differing along ethnic social and geographic lines. Memphis is geographically poised at the border of west Tennessee Mississippi and Arkansas overlooking the banks of the Mississippi River. Its name taken from another river city the Egyptian city of Memphis on the Nile whose residents were also Memphians reflected its location on the majestic Mississippi an early sign that Memphis was destined to become an important trading center in the region. The city was settled in the early 1800s by among others the future US President Andrew Jackson and owes much of its linguistic history to the spread of the earlier settlement from eastern Tennessee. The city continued to grow rapidly with settlers from the Southern Coastal regions in Virginia and North Carolina who migrated first into eastern Tennessee. Originally of English and Scots-Irish descent these settlers joined others from eastern and middle Tennessee as they moved farther west. As travel became easier through new developments such as steamboats these early immigrants were soon joined by settlers from
