,.DOCUMENT .14SU ED 123 927 ;,FL Oti.. 759 AUTH Peterson, Joseph; Thundyil, Zacharias TIT E A Computerized Questionnaire for the Dialectal Survey of he Upper Peninsula of lichigan. Papers, from the Michigan Linguistic Society Meeting, Vol. 1, No. 3. ' 0 INSTITUTION Central Michigan Univ.', MountPleasant.Dept. of EngliSh. PUB DATE 1' Oct 71 NOM .33p.; Paper.presented at the Michigan Linguistic. Society Meeting (October 9, 1971),; Best copy available. Parts of pages 26-32 may reproduce. poorly AVAILABL4 FROM.David Lawton, English Department, Centrl Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan 48859 ($3.00 each issue) EDRS 'PRICE MF-$0.83 HC-$2.06 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS .*American English; Dialects; *Dialect' Studies, *Language Research; Language Usage; *Language ariation; Phonology; *Questionnaires; *Regional Dialects; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Speech Evaluation; Standard goken Usage; Surveys; Vocabulary 'IDENTIFIERS *Michigan ABSTRACT This questionnaire'presents about 450 phonological, lexical, and grammatical items that are used in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In cdmposing the'aialect survey, termspertaNYng to climate, topography, and ethni groups were taken into account, as were other words and phrases w ich might be used by Upper Peninsula native' speakers. The su ve wi I involve residents from each of the fifteen counties of the er Peninsula. (Author/DB-) *************************** ***************0********************.* ***. * Documents acquired0jERIC include many informal.unpublished- * * Materials not available f om other sources. ERIC makes every.effort *' * to .obtain the be..,z....Copya.ilable. 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Joseph.eterson and ?,acharias Thundiyil iilw Northern Michigan University 4t2; o- .- w n ..6wzr,in inx.::!wo .-0,.u..w Systemati linguistic geography work' began in the Dnited-States in 1 0, as the American Linguistic Atlas 0 Project. It was t headedbyHans- Kurath and Bernard Block. A dialectal study ic usually conducted by constructing a .cluestionnalre which tests speakers- of a guage as to,how their dialect makes use of that, language. The fieldworkers interview native residents that usually represent th-ee groups,. the older and uneducated spedkers, the middle- ged secondary school graduates, and the younger college graduates. The speakers are solectacraccording to their economic, social, religious, or educational background and they may Alva either 'in an urban or rural area. Then the responses have been tabulted, they are usually recorded on a map ,so that an deviation in usage can be observed readily. The largest problem confronted by those working on the'om Linguistic Atlas has been the size of the task. It has ,\ mQ taken fo'rt'y Years so far and. a completion date is not . in ight. ,rLY Up'to this time, eight primary areas have been studied: New Engle the Mdddle Atlantic States, South' Atlantic Staten, North Centra -s, Upper VAidwestt Rocky .Mountain States, Pacific Coast, and Louiaina.. T e Neva England as has been completed and published in 1939-19 Han. urath t. O 2. presented this work in 1949, in his Worddeogr phy of the Eastern. United States.and E.B. Atwood published. Verb Forms o tho Eastern States in 1953. Rayen.I. McDavid,.'Jr., Atwood, A1va,Davis, Walter' Avis,' Thomas Pearce,David Reed,. Marjorie Kimmorrel. and others have-published additional$; evidencefrom the study in American Speech, CollogeEnrlishand The English Journal, Orbis Language, and, Language Learning. Kurath and McDaviU have publiShed a volume onpronunciation of the o -Eastern United States in 1963. Fieldwork has also been com- pleted in Colorado, Oklahoma, Washington,and.eastern Montana; -with the fialthiorkprogressing satisfactorilyin a number of C 4, other states. 'Work in .the North-Central area-hegan in1938-1940, under Albert H. Marckwardt. A. L. >bavis and R. I. McDavid, Jr., made pontributions to thin'urvey 1949. The , .4mpleted field work for the Great Lak s region (Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio,' Indiana,1,1Iinois, and Kentucky) "and -the Upper Midwest (Minnesota; Iowa, North andSouth Dakota, and Nebraska) are under the editorship of AlbertH. Marckwardt and the, generalfindings have been 'published; Virginia Glenn ,McDavid ekpanded Atwood's study ofverbs in her.dip- , sertation-Verb Forms of the North CentralStates and Upper , MIdwest, in 1956. "Roger W. Shuy studed the northern part of Illinois in his dissertationThe Boundary Between the NorthernandMidland Dialects in Illinois in19624-, MethodsandProced:10, Up to this AbA no one has published the results of a dialectal survey OT thOippar Peninsula of Michigan. This survey will attempt to clarify the reasons why,we,in the Upper Peninsula, speak as we do. 44 The material- for this questionnaire has been derived from dialectal work sheets, especially from A Compilation of The .iork Sheets ei.the,Linguistio Atlas of the `United States and Canada and Associ4ted_Projects, personal inquiries, 1 and-with the invaluable aid of Dr. Zacharias Thundyil, assistants professor of English, at Northern Michigan Univqrsity. The questionnaire presents about-14,50 phonologial, lexical, and grammatical items that are used in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.' In composing the dialect Survey, we have taken into accbunttermsTertaining to climate, topography, and ethnic groups-as well as other words and phrases which might bd'used.by Upper Peninsula native speakers. The survey will involve residents from each of the fifteen counties o the UppgrlPeninsulC.'- A field worker will. inter- view each inferMant regarding his vocabulary, grammar, and the way he pronoUnces 1is words. The outstanding feature of the survey is thefect that all results will be tabulated by a Computer. This will,fadilitate the compilation of the resultagreatly. It is hoped that if this method proves satisfactory, it can be adapted by-others compiling information. for the Linguistic Atlas.. INSTRUCTIONS iThi$ is a. questionnaire to determine the dialectal characteristics of the residents of the upper Ptninsula. Please aid us by marking the. apPropriate c, d, Or e) on.theIBM"Card with the IBM pencil. The Mark should correspond with the selection you made on the questionqire. There"are no riglit or wrong answers, but rather, each answer is an indicatidh of the particular speech pattern of your family, neighborhood,-cityi and region. ,,Plqa.se mark the cards, with a dark'stroke,and 'should ybu decide to change ananswer, epase the previous Cheidecompletely. Also, fill out ,he biograph'al page that precedes" the qu4tdonnaire: Attempt fill out the biographical survey as *turately as pssiblebecauseyour speech habits - are "the sum .tptal of al factorgthat have influenced `your life and we cAbetter determinehow mush your habits have been altered by/Outside influencesif this section is accurate. IBM CardNo. ATE NAME OF FIELD,C.IKER: BI otft on AT DATA AME: °STREET AI)1H : CITY: NAME OF NEIGHUORHWD IF ANY: PLACE OJ' BIRTH : AGE: SEX : OTHCR Cot UN I TILM0 IN ldliCH YOU HAVE LIVED AND HOW LONG: 0 SIGNIFJCT. Ti /MEL (INCLUDE MILITARY SERVICE) : OCCUPATION JOB, OR DESCRIPTION`) : ED : MOTHER ' S PLACE OF BIRTH : S EDUCATION : FATEER S PLACE -6pF BIRTH FATHER ' S EOU CA I0N : MATERNAL GRANDPAINTS: SPLAGE OF BIRTH: VINDFATHER S PLACEOFBIRTH: PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS: GRANDMOTHER'S PLACE OF BIRTH.: GRODFATHER'S PLACE OF BIRTH: 0 GRAMMAR 1. seen him. d.--Taven't b. hainit c. ain 2. The boys stones at the dog. a. threw;-b. throwed c. flung d. pitched 3. Paul, your clothes. a. Here are- 6. here's . 'many men that feel thatwet* There are b. There's I'm correct, a. am I not ain't I c. aren't I )6. he going to go to town. a. were b. was \. PIO weis co: ing me. toward b. towards, . d. I ran. him.: a. ,into b. onto O. across 9. We went a little over. a. way b. ways c. piece 10. I said it is a. quarter before eleven b. quarter of eleven c. quarter till eleven d. 10:45 11. It's half Tour. a. past b. after 12. He isn't a. at home b.- to home c. -home- 13. It? COMillf; riicht; ; Sou. a. -at b. tewa61-- c. towards 14. They named tlie Oild him. a. after 57' for c. at d. 15. I fell V[Ia_4af:se. from a. off li. off, of c. off from d. 16r I w llt:Tt`his of that.. -.a.-7inStcad b. in place c. stead 17. We're waitir g John. a. on bl for I' 18. I want the bud. a. off---b. to get off 19. How big mime is it? a. a ia 20. Here your pencils-. a. is b. are 21. The oats thrashed,, a. is b":".sare 22. Those cabbages for sale. a. is b. aro 23. I have two of shoes. a. pair U. pairs 24. They had forty of apples. a. bushel 1).--Uushols 25. He hab two of. buLLer. a. pound ,b. pounds 26. The fence has twenty a.' posts b. postis n. post He likes to piny . ,,Z.7. , \ a. horseshoe b. horseshoeb ,.. 28. 'Let's spray'fer . a. moth b., raiTfis c. mothis 29. I-bought two , of lettuce. a. head b.--heads.. 30. That's a long a. way b. ways 31.- That's a short a. way b, ways 3 . It's nine high. a.