What phonological, lexical, and syntactic features can you identify in each of the
expressions below that are characteristic of a regional or ethnic dialect.
I recommend that you “translate” the expression first into Standard American
English (in the International Phonetic Alphabet) and then examine your
transcription in comparison with the transcription given below for the
dialect. What is systematically different about the dialect?
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