Welcome!

Welcome to the website of the Linguistic Atlas Projects. This is a group of projects with one thing in common: studying dialects of English as it is spoken in the United States. More of the projects used surveys, where researchers interviewed participants, sometimes for hours, sometimes for days.

The projects are arranged geographically, and some projects overlap (for example, both LAMSAS and the African-American/Gullah projects cover parts of South Carolina and Georgia). Here is a map of the Unites States, with the projects colored in and descriptions of the projects to the sides:

If this is your first time to this site, you may want to check out the introduction, which provides some information about the site and its organization. Also, there is a page which provides more information about the site, one which provides an overview of linguistics (the study of language) and some of the concepts you'll need to know to best use the information on this site.

If you're ready to jump straight to the data, the projects are listed to the left of each page. Once you're in a project, you'll have the opportunity to get more information about the project or to browse the data.

Have fun as you explore this site and the many varieties of English spoken in the United States!