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American Dialect Homepage - Describes regional varieties of English in the United States of America and Canada and includes links to other web resources.
American Dialect Society - Scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America.
AmeriSpeak - Dictionary of expressions of our American ancestors and phrases that have been passed down through the generations.
Community Language Collection - Audio and text clips, graphics, and full transcripts from 40 speakers of American dialects from New York to Georgia, with most from North Carolina.
Dictionary of American Regional English - Online American English dictionary, specialising in local slang and regional words and phrases.
Harvard Dialect Survey - Uses a series of questions, including rhyming word pairs and vocabulary words, to explore words and sounds in the English language.
Linguistic Atlas Projects - Details on studies of regional linguistic patterns in the U.S.
Linguistic Geography of the United States - Discussion of eight major dialects in American English and their geographic boundaries.
National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English - Describes the dialect regions of the United States.
Organization of Dialect Diversity in North America - Text of a paper presented by William Labov in 1996.

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