Clarke and Oconee County, GA are two communities which are geographically located within a few miles of each other, but display strong cultural difference. Clarke County[...]

The present study investigates phonetic variation in two Southern US counties with the goal of untangling how cultural and place-based identities can contribute to lingui[...]

Sociolinguistic research finds that people with strong ties to the place where they live are more likely to use local dialect features, but what happens when the cultural[...]