We have studied a number of linguistic features associated with West Virginia and
Appalachia. These include the following:
- Perfective “done”
- Leveled “was”
- Demonstrative “them”
- A-prefixing
- “For-to” infinitive
- Alveolar “-ing”
- Consonant cluster reduction
- Vowel mergers for low-back and front-lax
- Pleonastic pronouns
- Quotative “like”
Research Resources Produced by Dr. Hazen
Hazen, Methodology for a Rapidly Reconfigured Variable, ISLE 2, PDF of e-slides: Methodology for a Variable
Hazen, Methods 14, Transitioning from Old School Variationist Methodology to What?, PDF of e-slides: Old School Methods
Hazen, University of Kentucky, Something Old & Something New. PDF of e-slides: Dialect Features in WV
Hazen, NWAV 40, A Rapidly Reconfigured Variable. PDF of e-slides: Quotatives in West Virginia
Hazen & Dodsworth, LSA 2012, Going to L in Appalachia, PDF of e-slides: Going to L in Appalachia