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Appalachians Speak Up to Redefine Their Dialect Pride
In Pineville West Virginia a young couple helps document Appalachian speech for a WVU project aimed at debunking stereotypes about mountain talk. Linguists note diverse English varieties and teach students to honor home speech while improving formal writing.
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Pineville
W.va
Pete Culberto
Ginger Smyth
West Virginia University
Kirk Hazen
Hazen
West Virginia
Appalachia
North Carolina
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
East Tennessee
Smyth
Culberto
Wyoming East High School
Smyth and
Jordan Lovejoy
New York
Lovejoy
Appalachian Writing Project
Clark
Virginia
Lizbeth Phillips
Southwest
Phillips
U.va
Walt Wolfram
North Carolina State University
Wolfram
William Schumann
Center For
Appalachian Studies
Appalachian State University
Schumann
West
Scott
South