1. What is a pidgin language?
Gullah
What is a pidgin language?

2. What is a pidgin language? What is a creole?
Gullah
What is a pidgin language?
What is a creole?

3. Gullah What is a pidgin language? What is a creole?
What social situation leads to their formation?

4. Gullah
Where is Gullah spoken

5. Gullah Gullah is not An African language Bad English
The same as Krio in Sierra Leone

6. Gullah Gullah is not An African language Bad English
The same as Krio in Sierra Leone
Gullah has African and English words
The structure of Gullah is not English

7. Gullah Most Gullah speakers live on islands. Why?
What does Gullah sound like?

8. Are dialects dying in the US?
What would make a dialect die?

9. Are dialects dying in the US?
What would make a dialect die?
Mass transportation
People moving a lot
Mass communication

10. Are dialects dying in the US?
Dialectal differences in the US

11. Are dialects dying in the US?
Vowel shifts in the US

12. Are dialects dying in the US?
Vowel shifts in the US

13. Are dialects dying in the US?
Vowel shifts in the US
California

14. Are dialects dying in the US?
Vowel shifts in the US
California
“Wreck” sounds like “rack”
“I missed picking flowers” sound like “I messed pecking flowers”
“He ran” sounds like “He ray-ann”

15. What are the characteristics?
Utah Dialect
What are the characteristics?

16. Utah Dialect What are the characteristics? Feel/fill merger
Fell/fail merger
Pull/pole/pull merger

17. Utah Dialect What are the characteristics? Feel/fill merger
Fell/fail merger
Pull/pole/pull merger
But is it really just Utah?

18. Utah Dialect
Feel/fill merger

19. Fell/fail merger Parts of south, Texas, midwest, west, Pittsburgh
Utah Dialect
Fell/fail merger
Parts of south, Texas, midwest, west, Pittsburgh

20. Utah Dialect Fell/fail merger
Parts of south, Texas, midwest, west, Pittsburgh
Pull/pole/pool merger
Pittsburgh, southern Indiana, Maryland