Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for May 31st

For homework, please watch these videos on US accents (the three parts total to about 35 minutes, so plan your viewing accordingly): 

Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One) | WIRED - YouTube

Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part 2) | WIRED - YouTube

Accent Expert Gives a Tour of North American Accents - (Part 3) | WIRED - YouTube

Take some notes as you listen (no need to be comprehensive, but jot down some terms/details/historical information that interest you) and see if you can place where some of the accents you hear in your favorite series (think characters whose accents stand out like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory or Phoebe from Friends) are from. 

The slides from the May 10th Zoom session are posted under "Women's Suffrage and Waves of Feminism" on Ilias. 

For those who want to geek out about dialectology, accents, and varieties further, here are some useful links: 

American Dialect Society

Language Log (upenn.edu)