Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

4/1/1973 - 8/31/1976

Funding Totals

$99,654.00 (approved)
$99,654.00 (awarded)


The Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States

FAIN: RO-11923

Emory University (Atlanta, GA 30322-1018)
Lee A. Pederson (Project Director: April 1973 to present)

The LAGS project is a survey of regional and social dialects in eight Southern states. The LAGS project aims to provide systematically contrastive data representative of all major regional and social varieties of colloquial Ameican English spoken in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.