Southern American English

All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Southern American English canonical	18
Coastal Southern English	1
Gulf Coast English	1
Inland South English	1
Southern American English region	1
Southern Vowel Shift	1

Statements (57)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	regional dialect of American English ⓘ variety of English ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	distinctive grammar ⓘ distinctive intonation patterns ⓘ distinctive pronunciation ⓘ distinctive vocabulary ⓘ double modals such as might could or might should ⓘ drawl in some subvarieties ⓘ monophthongization of /aɪ/ in many areas ⓘ multiple regional subvarieties ⓘ pin–pen merger in many speakers ⓘ regularization of past tense forms in some speakers ⓘ rhotic or non-rhotic variants depending on subregion ⓘ use of a-prefixing on verb participles in some rural varieties ⓘ use of anymore in positive polarity in some subregions ⓘ use of anymore with present tense to mean nowadays in some areas ⓘ use of bless your heart as pragmatic expression ⓘ use of buggy for shopping cart in some areas ⓘ use of carry meaning take or transport someone ⓘ use of coke as generic term for soft drink in many areas ⓘ use of done as auxiliary for emphasis in some varieties ⓘ use of done gone or done did for completive aspect in some varieties ⓘ use of ever-which or ever-what compounds in some areas ⓘ use of fixin to for immediate future ⓘ use of fixin to with progressive meaning about to ⓘ use of habitual be in some African American–influenced varieties ⓘ use of liketa or like to for nearly did in some varieties ⓘ use of maam and sir as politeness markers ⓘ use of might can or may can as double modals in some speakers ⓘ use of perfective done in some African American–influenced varieties ⓘ use of plural you all and yall with possessive yalls ⓘ use of real as adverb meaning very in some speakers ⓘ use of right as degree adverb as in right good ⓘ use of yonder as deictic term in some speakers ⓘ vowel breaking in stressed syllables in some areas ⓘ was leveling such as we was instead of we were in some speakers ⓘ yall as second-person plural pronoun ⓘ
hasPerception	associated with Southern U.S. cultural identity ⓘ often stereotyped in American media ⓘ
hasSubvariety	African American Vernacular English influenced Southern varieties ⓘ Appalachian English ⓘ Southern American English self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Coastal Southern English Southern American English self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Inland South English Gullah ⓘ surface form: Lowcountry Southern English Ozark English ⓘ English in Louisiana ⓘ surface form: Southern Louisiana English Texas English ⓘ
influencedBy	African languages via enslaved populations ⓘ British English dialects ⓘ Native American languages in some lexical items ⓘ Scots-Irish English ⓘ
spokenIn	Southern United States ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
studiedInField	dialectology ⓘ sociolinguistics ⓘ
usedBy	millions of speakers ⓘ
usedSince	19th century ⓘ

Referenced by (23)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

African American Vernacular English → historicalInfluence → Southern American English ⓘ

Western American English → contrastedWith → Southern American English ⓘ

Upper South → dominantDialect → Southern American English ⓘ

Scots-Irish American → associatedDialect → Southern American English ⓘ

subject surface form: Scots-Irish Americans

Southern American English → hasSubvariety → Southern American English self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Inland South English

Southern American English → hasSubvariety → Southern American English self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Coastal Southern English

California English → distinctFrom → Southern American English ⓘ

Nevada English → distinctFrom → Southern American English ⓘ

Chicago English → distinctFrom → Southern American English ⓘ

Northern Cities Vowel Shift region English → contrastsWith → Southern American English ⓘ

New Jersey English → regionallyContrastedWith → Southern American English ⓘ

Inland North American English → contrastedWith → Southern American English ⓘ

English in Louisiana → influencedBy → Southern American English ⓘ

this entity surface form: Gulf Coast English

Mayella Ewell → language → Southern American English ⓘ

Canadian Shift in short front vowels → distinctFrom → Southern American English ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Vowel Shift

Texas English → influencedBy → Southern American English ⓘ

Ozark English → influencedBy → Southern American English ⓘ

Ozark English → hasLexicalInfluenceFrom → Southern American English ⓘ

Scots-Irish English → influenced → Southern American English ⓘ

Inland North region → contrastedWith → Southern American English ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern American English region

Penny Wharvey-McGill → speaksWithAccent → Southern American English ⓘ

Delmar O’Donnell → speaksDialect → Southern American English ⓘ