Texas is the second largest state in the U.S. with an area of almost 270,000 square miles and a population of 24.7 million residents. The document discusses various phonological and grammatical features of Southern American English dialects, including vowel changes, dropping or changing consonants, use of past participles instead of past simple verbs, double modals, and distinctive greetings and words used in parts of the South. It then provides a script about a 22-year-old white female student from Amarillo, Texas who is attending college and shares details about her family background and upbringing.

2. Texas is the second-largest state in the U.S. Area: almost 270.000 square miles Population: 24.7 million residents

4. The dipthong /aɪ/ becomes monopthongized to /a:/: ride [ra:d], wide [wa:d] Southern drawl: breaking of the front vowels pat [p æjə], pet [pejə], pit [pɪjə] /z/ becomes /d/ before /n/ wasn’t [w ʌ dnt], business [ bɪdnɪs] exception: hasn’t [ hæzənt]

5. Drop /g/ in “ing” taking / teɪkɪŋ/, walking /wɔ:kɪŋ/

6. Use of past participle in place of past simple. I only done what you done told me I seen her first use of was in place of were. you was sittin’ on that chair Use of double modals. he might could climb the top i used to could do that

7. Use of ever instead of every. ever’where’s is the same place these days. Use of (a-) fixin’ to or fixin’ to with the meaning about to. the plane’s fixin’ to land.

8. Howdy : a general greeting. A shortened form of how do you do? Di’jeet’yet : did you eat yet? Ol’ boy : a good friend Looker : an atractive woman

9. Y’all : you all Over Yonder: analogous to “over there” Coke: Any flavor of soda.

10. Conversion of one-syllable words into two-syllable words. big: bee-yug. pen: pee-yun. cat: ca-yut.

11. Conversion of “ing” into “ang” finger fanger sing sang things thangs

12. script “ Amarillo, Texas. Ah, North Texas, up in the panhandle. Twenty-two. In Huntsville, Texas. I am going to Sam Houston State University. I’ll be starting my junior year in the fall. Yeah, I have a younger sister that’s nineteen, and a brother that’s twelve and a brother that’s six. And my parents are divorced, so I have lived with my mom and my dad, my step-dad since I was five. So I’m not very close to my real dad. Well my mom is white and my dad was Hispanic and since I didn’t really get to know him, I probably am the most whitest Mexican you’ve ever met in your life. No. No, I don’t even like Mexican food.”