The Rhode Island Dialect: An Investigation of Language Change in New England

Moira Crocker
2017 Lingua Frankly  
This is an investigation into the shifting dialect boundaries of New England, wherein I investigated the speech use and speech perceptions of native Rhode Islanders to see if, like the surrounding dialects, the Rhode Island dialect is diminishing over time.
doi:10.6017/lf.v3i0.9548 fatcat:k6gojuku4jcdxomoxsguw53fca