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Meetings Thursday, October 21 5:30-7:00 p.m. Rocky Mountain American Dialect Society: Conjoint Meeting (Forum) Presiding: Lurline H. Coldiarp, University of Texas at El Paso Secretary: Bates L. Hoffer, Trinity University Theme: "Dialects of the Rocky Mountain Region" Fred Tarpley, East Texas State University, "Some Features of Southwestern Dialect." Most dialect maps of American regional English become less precise west of die Mississippi and hopelessly vague at die Continental Divide and beyond. This study will be an attempt to syndiesize dialect studies to determine tentative isoglosses and distinctive features. John Sharp, University of Texas at El Paso, "A Bilingual Mediod of Teaching Dialects: A Case Study." In diis paper is described a bi-language (English and Spanish) dialect course taught at die University of Texas at El Paso. The advantages of such a course and die special problems entailed are set fordi. Garland Bills, University of New Mexico, "The English of Chícanos : Dialect of Foreign Accent." Thomas L. Clar\, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, "The Nevada Language Survey." The Nevada Language Survey is described in rela- tion to linguistic atlas projects and die DARE survey, on the one hand, and more recent work done in New York City, Detroit, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

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Thursday, October 21 5:30-7:00 p.m. Rocky Mountain American Dialect Society: Conjoint Meeting (Forum) Presiding: Lurline H. Coldiarp, University of Texas at El Paso Secretary: Bates L. Hoffer, Trinity University Theme: "Dialects of the Rocky Mountain Region" Fred Tarpley, East Texas State University, "Some Features of Southwestern Dialect." Most dialect maps of American regional English become less precise west of die Mississippi and hopelessly vague at die Continental Divide and beyond. This study will be an attempt to syndiesize dialect studies to determine tentative isoglosses and distinctive features. John Sharp, University of Texas at El Paso, "A Bilingual Mediod of Teaching Dialects: A Case Study." In diis paper is described a bi-language (English and Spanish) dialect course taught at die University of Texas at El Paso. The advantages of such a course and die special problems entailed are set fordi. Garland Bills, University of New Mexico, "The English of Chícanos : Dialect of Foreign Accent." Thomas L. Clar\, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, "The Nevada Language Survey." The Nevada Language Survey is described in rela- tion to linguistic atlas projects and die DARE survey, on the one hand, and more recent work done in New York City, Detroit,

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Rocky Mountain Review of Language and LiteratureRocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Published: Jan 6, 1976

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