American tongues [videorecording] / Prepared by Walt Wolfram. - New York, N.Y. : The Center for New American Media, [c1987] - 1 videocassette (VHS) (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 instructional guide (12 p.)

Narrator, Polly Holliday ; original music, Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack. Narrator, Polly Holliday ; original music, Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack.

Portrays some of the regional, social, and ethnic differences in American speech and presents various attitudes that people have about these differences.


English language--Dialects--United States.
Speech and social status--United States.
Sociolinguistics.