Residents of Chilmark on this island produced "more central" vowels as a sign of their identity, according to a masters' thesis written by William Labov.
Residents of Chilmark on this island produced "more central" vowels as a sign of their identity, according to a masters' thesis written by William Labov. Jonathan Lambert, a carpenter who moved to this island in 1694, was a resident of the Weald who may have carried a distinctive sign language from Kent to the deaf residents of this island. This island's towns include (*) Oak Bluffs, where the narrator of the novel The Emperor of Ocean Park inherits a house, and Aquinnah, which contains clay cliffs important to the Wampanoag people. The Norton Point Beach once connected this island to nearby ► Chappaquiddick; it is linked to the mainland by a ferry that departs from Woods Hole. For 10 points, the daughter of 17th-century navigator Bartholomew Gosnold was the title figure of what island south of Cape Cod and west of Nantucket?
Residents of Chilmark on this island produced "more central" vowels as a sign of their identity, according to a masters' thesis written by William Labov.
{Martha's Vineyard}