(10 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atlanta – 30 April 2025
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1. Linguistics professor Lelia Glass pointing to a computer screen, UPSOUND (English)
"So our trap vowel is higher and fronter for the Gen X speaker whereas for the Gen Z speaker it’s a little lower and backer." And we also see that our vowels are very close to each other."
2. Lelia Glass points to computer screen
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lelia Glass, Georgia Tech linguistics professor
"People’s assumptions and stereotypes about how South— how Southerners talk might be about 50 years out of date. So now how Southerners talk sounds a lot different than how Southerners used to talk."
4. Glass plays audio clips
5. Glass on computer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lelia Glass, Georgia Tech linguistics professor:
"The Southern accent going away is this phenomenon arising from urbanization and this — what we call again dialect leveling, when lots of people come together in cities, and then it creates this kind of contact situation that results in a kind of homogenizing and sort of standardizing of language there."
7. Glass on computer
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Atlanta – 1 May 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Beck, Georgia resident:
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"I don’t think I know anyone that has a clear, distinctive Southern — what I would consider from watching TV years ago — the traditional Southern accent."
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Beck, Georgia resident
"Oil."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Oil."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dylan Beck, Georgia resident
"Oil."
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Oil."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident:
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"I don’t think I have an accent, but when I talk to other people they say that I sound very country but they can’t figure out where I’m from."
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Beck, Georgia resident
"Water."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Water"
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Dylan Beck, Georgia resident
"Water"
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Water."
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident:
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"I think that people in Georgia do have an accent compared to like people in New York because like New York people you can hear the differences in how we talk, how it sounds."
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19. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Beck, Georgia resident
"Prize."
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Prize."
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Dylan Beck, Georgia resident
"Prize."
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Prize."
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23. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Beck, Georgia resident
"I think a little bit will be lost, a little bit of that Southern charm, the sweet tea sitting on the porch waving at your neighbors."
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STORYLINE:
The Southern accent, which has many variations, is fading in some areas of the South as people migrate to the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.
Michelle and Richard Beck, Gen Xers living in the Atlanta area, have a Southern accent, but it’s missing in their two sons born in 1998 and 2001.
“I think they speak clearer than I do,” Richard Beck, a law enforcement officer, said of his sons. “They don’t sound as country as I do when it comes to the Southern drawl.”
During the Great Migration, from roughly 1910 to 1970, African Americans from the South moved to cities in the North like New York, Detroit and Chicago.
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