Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
7-24-2023
Year of Publication
2023
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
Linguistics
First Advisor
Dennis R. Preston
Abstract
The present study analyzes new interviews from fifteen Tulsan speakers of English and maps produced by draw-a-map tasks. The interviews and subsequent map tasks were conducted over the course of the winter of 2021 for the purpose of this thesis and have been analyzed for folk linguistic information about the perceptions of Tulsa and the rest of the state. The study finds that Tulsan speakers hold similar dialectal perceptions about both their own city and other locations as their fellow Oklahomans, and also provides evidence of a deteriorating faith among Tulsans in the existence of the northern-southern dialectal divide compared to the urban-rural dialectal divide.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2023.296
Recommended Citation
Carter, Andrew, "Perceptual Dialectology of Tulsan Speakers of English" (2023). Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics. 55.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/ltt_etds/55
