Works Cited

Primary Sources:

Dove, Laurie L. “How Different Accents Develop Within the Same Language.” HowStuffWorks,

HowStuffWorks, 27 Apr. 2017, people.howstuffworks.com/how-accents-develop-

language.htm. This source is about how separation causes people to develop different

accents throughout time. It discusses the fact that separation is key in creating an accent.

(Primary Source, Article and Video, Article is arranged like a normal article would be)

Etter, Sarah. “Probing Question: How Did Regional Accents Originate?” Penn State University,

Penn State University, 29 Aug. 2005,

news.psu.edu/story/141216/2005/08/29/research/probing-question-how-did-regional-

accents-originate. A professor at Penn State University goes in depth about how European

immigrants shaped the east coast accent, and how New Orleans accent is different than a

usual southern accent because they were so separated and secluded from everybody else.

This gave me an insight on just how much a little distance can change the way that people

speak ( Primary Source, Article, Arranged like a newsletter)

Heiland, Bill. “Why Do We Have Accents.” 13 Dec. 2017. My Opa, who is from the east coast,

said that the stereotypical version of the east coast accent started with lower class italian

immigrants, who didn't learn english as quickly and as properly as the more upper class

immigrants from the same areas. They also used to drop the last vowel off of specific

words, which in turn caused a change between them and the higher class immigrants.

(Primary Source, It’s a story sort of.)

“Linguistics 201.” Linguistics 201: The Dialects of American English,

pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test3materials/AmericanDialects.htm. This article

 gives examples of pronunciations of different accents in america, and explains where and

when this accent was originated, or how other languages influenced it when it was with

mixed english. This is great if you want to learn how to speak differently, but it also does

help me understand why different areas of this country sound so different. ( Primary

Source, Its a list pretty much)

Ocak, Geri. “Why Do People Have Different Accents When They Speak English?” Telc - Why

Do People Have Different Accents When They Speak English?, Jan. 2015,

www.telc.net/tr/hakkimizda/guencel/detail/why-do-people-have-different-accents-when-

they-speak-english-1.html. This is an article about how you are technically born with an

accent depending on where you live. I really liked this article because it explained more

than just american accents, and also that people's parents, and the way that they speak

will have and impact on how their children speak. (Primary Source, Article, Arranged in

segments)

Santaniello, Gary. “Accent? What Accent?” The New York Times, The New York Times, 5 Sept.

2004, www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/nyregion/accent-what-accent.html. In this article, a

speech therapist explains why there are so many accents in Connecticut, and the author

talks about where you would see them This is interesting because i didn't really ever think

that people in Connecticut would have very much of an accent, and especially not this

many different accents. (Primary Source, Its a news article, so it's arranged like a news

article)

Tatman, Rachel. “Why Do People Have Accents?” Makingnoiseandhearingthings.com, 25 Sept.

2013, makingnoiseandhearingthings.com/2013/09/25/why-do-people-have-accents/. In

this article, the author explains that even if 2 close cultures become separated for only a
century, they will still develop different ways of pronouncing certain words, and they will

be able to determine where each other are from based on the way that they speak. I really

liked this article because the example that the author gave with the 2 villages. (Primary

Source, Article, Arranged like a newsletter.)

Secondary Sources:

Aschmann, Rick. North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns. 13

Sept. 2017, aschmann.net/AmEng/. This is kinda hard to read, but it has pretty interesting

information of the way people in very specific areas speak. It has a small map that shows

where some different accents are. This is my favorite source so far. It includes videos of

how people speak in different areas if you click on a section of the map. ( Secondary

Source, Blog post sort of, [Its kinda just like a website that is all about accents], It is

organized somewhat in sections)

“Ask A Linguist FAQ.” LINGUIST List Home Page, linguistlist.org/ask-ling/accent.cfm.

This is a somewhat shady website about where accents came from, and why we have

them.

Birner, Betty. “Why Do Some People Have Accents?” Linguistic Society of America,

www.linguisticsociety.org/content/why-do-some-people-have-accent. this is an incredibly

long article about why people have specific accents based on where they are from. This

article is kind of confusing because they talk about accents of people from America when

they speak English, and people who aren't from America when they speak English.

Dayman, Isabel, et al. “Why Do South Australians Sound Different to Others Down

Under?” ABC News, 2 Nov. 2017, www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-03/curious-adelaide-

do-south-australians-speak-differently/9093738. This article looks in to the part that

history played in the difference between the South Australian/ New Zealand accent, and

the northern, West Australian accent. This article just proved the separation theory,

because if you didn't know, Australia has a quite large desert in the middle, and New

Zealand is an island. ( Secondary Source, Newsletter, Organized like a newsletter)

Ettlinger, Marc. “Why Do People Have Different Accents?” Quora, 30 Apr. 2017,

www.quora.com/Why-do-people-have-different-accents. This article is separated into

different sections, all which describe different possibilities for why people have accents.

It's another one of those things where someone ask as question, then a bunch of people

who sit in their basement all day try to answer. Some of the answers are actually pretty

good though, so I decided to save it. ( Secondary Source, Question Forum, Layed out sort

of like a bunch of blog posts)

Inglis-Arkell, Esther. “The Science of Accents.” io9, io9.Gizmodo.com, 22 June 2012,

io9.gizmodo.com/5919805/the-science-of-accents. This Article talks about research done

that found that babies have about 6 month of their life when the can distinguish sounds,

and a lot of that goes away after a year. Different studies also show that goats, birds,and

dogs also have different accents, depending on where they are from. (Secondary Source,

Newsletter, Arranged like a newsletter)

Inglis-Arkell, Esther. “You Were Born with an Accent.” io9, io9.Gizmodo.com, 9 Aug.

2013, io9.gizmodo.com/you-were-born-with-an-accent-1075900061. This talks about

how after they did a study, the found that French and German babies have different

accented cries. This didn't really give me that much help besides the fact that babies can
understand and learn the way their parents talk before they are born. The post was

interesting though. ( Secondary Source, Newsletter, Organized like a newsletter)

Kun, Xavier. “What American Accent Do You Have?” GoTo Quiz,

www.gotoquiz.com/results/what_american_accent_do_you_have. Although this isn't

much of a source, it does have you analyze a few words, think of the way you say them,

and then will tell you what kind of accent you have. It's really fun, and I wish there were

more things like this. (Secondary Source, Quiz, Arranged with questions and multiple

answers like a quiz)

Lohr, Clairissa. “What Causes Peoples Accents?” Quora, www.quora.com/What-causes-

people-to-have-whatever-accent-they-speak-with. Basically she just talks about how

people came to have accents.

Soniak, Matt. “When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?” Mental Floss, 17 Jan.

2012, mentalfloss.com/article/29761/when-did-americans-lose-their-british-accents. This

is another article about the British vs. American accents.

“Where Do Accents and Dialects Come from?” English Language & Usage Stack

Exchange, english.stackexchange.com/questions/5815/where-do-accents-and-dialects-

come-from. This is a bunch of different peoples ideas of how accents came into being. Its

kinda like how you can ask a question on yahoo and a bunch of people will answer, but I

think this is more of a history themed website. (Secondary Source, Web Post, Organized

like a bunch of posts)

Wolchover, Natalie. “Why Do Americans and Brits Have Different Accents?”

LiveScience, Purch, 9 Jan. 2012, www.livescience.com/33652-americans-brits-

accents.html. This is a website that briefly explains the history behind why British people

and American people have different accents.

Wolfram, Walt. “Everyone Has an Accent.” Teaching Tolerance, 25 July 2017,

www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2000/everyone-has-an-accent. In this article, the author

says that everyone has an accent, and they maybe just don't know it. She quotes things

that people have said about accents, and gives some possible scenarios in which people

with an accent different than from where they are can be perceived. I don't really like this

article, and I think she could’ve written it differently. (Secondary Source, article, arranged

like an article)