Chantale Marentette, a linguistics student from Toronto, is doing a study on cross-border speech and language patterns in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. Torontonians/Torontoans are also included in the study. The following survey was developed by Prof. Jack Chambers from the University of Toronto. It’s entitled “Dialect Topography”.
If you are from any of these metro areas, would you consider filling it out and sending it to her at sceesaw AT gmail DOT com? She especially needs survey takers who are in the 40+ age category.
I think you’ll find it fun to fill out. I’m always trying to figure out which Canadianisms are employed by our friends across the border – mostly so that I can imitate the difference between a Canadian and a U.S. accent for foreign audiences…
Download here: English Dialect Survey
Posted on 11/24/2009
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