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- Some Lexical Variants of Pioneer Ellis County
- The purpose of this study is to give the common words, together with a collection of old expressions or terms, of the oldest residents of Ellis County and to trace their usage to the states in the Old South. The importance of recording these old words and terms is to preserve the oldest forms of the community for those who are interested in the growth and development of local speech and, also, to trace the history of these words. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130242/
- Some Morphological Aspects of the Speech of Cooke County, Texas
- A survey of language in a certain area is designed primarily to present a living language as it is actually spoken; thus, a morphological study of language is designed to determine the most widely-used syntactical and grammatical forms and to record these forms in a statistical manner. These findings are to be interpreted in the light of similar studies, not with the purpose of establishing the cultural level of the language in the area surveyed, but to present all the possible variations, and, in some cases, to draw a comparison as a matter of record between the forms found to be commonly used in every-day speech and the standard usage as given by leading linguistic authorities. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83656/
- A Study of the Stressed Back Vowels in the Speech of Parker County, Texas
- It is the purpose of this thesis to contribute a small part to the large picture of Texas dialect by describing the use of certain stressed sounds in one locality, Parker County, Texas, which lies in the General American speech division of the United States. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc83545/
- A Study of the Stressed Back Vowels in the Speech of Gregg County, Texas
- The purpose of this paper is to contribute some knowledge of the vowel sounds in the speech of one part of East Texas, Gregg County. Although these sounds do not vary greatly from those heard in other parts of the South, the variations which do occur are of interest to the student of speech sounds, and for that reason the sounds studied are carefully recorded in this paper. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc130228/