American Front Porch - Dialect Excerpts

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An Appalachian Ghost Story
An Ocracoke Ghost Story
A Lumbee Ghost Story
Robeson County African American
Robeson County Anglo American
Flashlight Story
Southern White Female
Southern White Male
An Ocracoke Dialect Performance
Conversation between RO (above) and his Brothers
Conversation between RO Fieldworker
Older Ocracoke Speaker with little "Brogue"
"Classic" Ocracoke Speaker
"Classic" Smith Island Speaker
Demonstrating Smith Island /ay/ and /aw/
Real-Life Confusion Caused by Smith Island /aw/
The '44 Storm on Ocracoke
Pony Penning
"Fire" Story
Older Smith Islander
Middle-Aged Smith Islander

Younger Smith Islander
Lumbee /ay/, Prospect
Lumbee /ay/, Fairgrove
Meeting the Mailboat
Black Cat Story
Comments on speech in Ocracoke
Songs from JB, brother of speaker 25 above
Hyde County African American
Daughter, 61 (b. 1935)
Granddaughter , 39 (b. 1958)
Great-granddaughter, 22 (b. 1975)
Older Southeastern Mainland African-American
Older Ocracoke Woman
Older Ocracoke Male
Middle-Aged Ocracoke Female
Middle-Aged Non-Poker Player, Ocracoke
Younger Ocracoke Male
Younger Ocracoke Female
Younger Ocracoke Female
Pin-Pen Merger
New England R-lessness
Open o perception test

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