(10 May 2025)
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Atlanta – 30 April 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Lelia Glass, Georgia Tech linguistics professor
"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."
2. Lelia Glass Georgia Tech linguistics professor points to computer screen
3. FULLY COVERED 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"People’s assumptions and stereotypes about how South— how Southerners talk might be about 50 years out of date."
4. 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."
5. Lelia Glass, Georgia Tech linguistics professor plays audio clips
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Atlanta – 1 May 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Beck, Georgia resident
"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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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Beck, Georgia resident
"Prize."
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dylan Beck, Georgia resident
"Prize."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Prize."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Prize."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"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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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Oil."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Oil"
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Dylan Beck, Georgia resident
"Oil."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Beck, Georgia resident
"Oil."
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"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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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Water."
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Beck, Georgia resident
"Water."
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Beck, Georgia resident
"Water."
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Dylan Beck, Georgia resident
"Water."
21. 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."
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.”
The Southern dialect among Black people in Atlanta has dropped off in recent decades mainly because of an influx of African Americans from northern U.S. cities in what has been described as the "Reverse Great Migration.”
AP video by Sharon Johnson
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