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每种语言都有多元化的方言！
谁喜欢漫步于这个方言的美式英语呢？
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本篇听写只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。听仔细些。
主持人的话①  "I'm curious, you're talking about the emerging California dialect, and that's a state where I spent many years -- and I'm curious, in the media we think of California-speak as being like the 'surfer talk' or the 'Valley Girl' sorts of ways. Is that what you're referring to, or also the influence of -- "
HINTS
homogenization
Atlanta
'y'all' and 'fixin'
'time' as 'taime
linguistically
California"Well, there's a sort of homogenization that initially takes place. All of these people come in and sort of the native speaker becomes lost. But as a new group settles, what will, for example, happen with Atlanta is it will take some features of its original Southern heritage and it will start to redefine itself linguistically.
"So, for example, one of the things that you'll notice is that although there are lot of Northerners who move to Atlanta, within a couple of years they start saying things like 'y'all' and 'fixin' to' -- for 'I'm fixing to go now' -- something that's going to happen in the immediate future. Or they may start producing the vowel of 'time' as 'taime' and so forth. So what happens is, there's a selective process linguistically."
"Well, I mean, that's more of the public image. What's really sort of the heart of the developing California dialect is changes in the production of the vowels.