The final research project is due on Monday, 12 May by 1:30 PM in our regular classroom. You may of course submit it any time before then, in class or in my mailbox on the third floor of the First Savings Bank.

Interview three subjects and collect the following information:

the subject's pronunciation of the following sample passage. Provide this in phonetic transcription using the method you've learned from the Barber textbook.

On Saturdays and when he came home at night, he might water the lawn or perhaps borrow a hammer or a wheelbarrow from Mrs. Forrest, his next-door neighbor, in a vain attempt to start the long overdue jobs of patching his roof or cleaning his garage, which was filled with everything from broken mirrors to broken music boxes, from rusty scissors to rusty funnels, not to mention a crop of horrid wasps which had haunted the place for years. I can still remember seeing a lot of paper towels in an abandoned chicken coop near the raspberry bed, with a hank of knotted yarn coiled around a whetstone on top of the whole mess.

--the subjects' responses to the following twenty dialect items (give the word that the subject reports for the concept or item):

  1. response when someone says "thank you"
  2. pair of shoes worn to exercise in
  3. school years from grade 1 to grade 6
  4. time when the sun comes up
  5. nice formal room at the front of the house
  6. furry stuff that collects under beds
  7. the time if fifteen minutes before eleven
  8. piece of furniture containing drawers
  9. vehicle for small baby
  10. topmost covering for the bed
  11. dating or courting
  12. very tired
  13. flying bug that glows at night
  14. outdoor toilet
  15. large sandwich using long French-bread roll
  16. "soft" bottled drink
  17. place where packaged groceries are purchased
  18. garment worn by women at the seashore
  19. to hit the water flat on one's stomach when diving
  20. a child resembling a parent, as in "He _______ his mother."