Treasures of North Carolina Dialects: A Linguistic Legacy

Professor Walt Wolfram

William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor at NC State University

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During this inaugural Liberman lecture, Professor Wolfram spoke  about regional, social and ethnic differences in English language usage across different areas and groups of our state. Though there is no video available of this lecture, you can download the PowerPoint presentation professor Wolfram used during his lecture and learn some interesting facts that way.

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This flyer provides more detailed information about this presentation.

Access the YouTube channel The Language & Life Project at NC State.

Download the PowerPoint presentation Professor Wolfram used here.

(Be patient, this is a very large file (1.7 gigabytes) that will take a while to download and unzip. Also note that you must have the PowerPoint application to use this file!)