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First Summer Dialect Research Project

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The First Summer Dialect Research Project (SDRP) will take place at UMass Amherst from June 4 to June 16. Organized and directed by Lisa Green (with help from Barbara Pearson), the SDRP will provide research experiences for undergraduates with an interest in language-related disciplines.

The focus of the 2007 SDRP is the description of patterns in African American English (AAE), including "hands-on" methods for analyzing data from different sources.

The program will bring to campus twelve undergraduate students who are interested in African American English. The students are coming from colleges and universities in Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, DC, New York, California, and Massachusetts. Their background is in linguistics, English literature, other languages, and communication disorders.

Students will participate in classes taught by Lisa Green, Lisa Selkirk, Tom Roeper, Jill de Villiers, Peter de Villiers, Frances Burns (UMass Ph.D in Com.Dis), Peggy Speas, Shelley Velleman, Peter Elbow, and J Michael Terry.

[Thanks Barbara, Lisa, and Peggy!]