News and press mentions of NSF-funded research at UGA: "Classic Georgia accent fading fast." Katie Cowart. Press Release, University of Georgia, Athens GA. September 7, 2023. "Georgians are losing their Southern drawl, UGA and Georgia Tech study finds." Morning Edition with Lisa Rayam. Atlanta, Georgia: WABE. September 12, 2023. "Are Southern accents disappearing? Linguists say yes." NPR Weekend Edition Sunday with Ayesha Rascoe. September 17, 2023. "Boomers will be the last Georgians who speak with a Southern accent." Bo Emerson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. September 21, 2023. "New Study: This American Accent is Disappearing." Lauren Cahn, Reader's Digest. September 27, 2023. "Sorry, Y’all, Georgia’s Deep Southern Accent Is Slipping Away." Scott Calvert, Wall Street Journal. October 2, 2023. "From Paula Deen to Julia Roberts, the Georgia Drawl is fading, y'all." María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post. October 5, 2023. [COMEDY] "Gen Z dropping Southern accents." The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. October 6, 2023. "'They call me the mouth of the South': Study shows Southern accent is fading, here's what locals think." Megan Western, WMAZ Macon, GA. February 22, 2024. September 2022. Department of Linguistics faculty receive NSF grant to support research on endangered languages. Author: Alan Flurry. Press Release. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia. September 2017. Pronounced Linguistics. Author: Eric Rangus. The University of Georgia Magazine, vol. 96, no. 4: 18-19. June 30, 2017. The southern drawl gets deconstructed. Author: Rachel Ehrenberg. News In Brief. Science News. December 4, 2016. Southern Language and Siri. Author: Victoria Regis Knight. Podcast. WUGA Feature Interviews. Athens, Georgia: WUGA. September 14, 2016. UGA professors transcribing interviews to map out, study regional dialects. Author: Mia Falcon. The Red and Black. August 29, 2016. UGA Project Aims To Catalogue Diversity Of Southern Accents. Creator: Molly Samuel. All Things Considered. Atlanta, Georgia: WABE. August 25, 2016. NSF linguistics grant to support study of Southern language variation | UGA Today. Author: Alan Flurry. Press Release. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia. Other news: March 17, 2024. The Differences Between Regional Southern Accents, According To A Linguist. Author: Lauren Finney Harden. SouthernLiving.com. May 12, 2017. Shawn Foster named UGA's first Beinecke Scholar. Author: Stephanie Schupska. Press Release. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia. December 16, 2012. Profesorii care predau Limba Romana la Oxford, cea mai buna universitate din Marea Britanie. 30 de studenti straini urmeaza cursul. Romania te iubesc, Pro TV. [A clip from Romanian TV in which I speak some Romanian and riff about the minimal pairs that crucially differentiate the vowels I study.]
