
Perceptual Dialectology in the 21st Century
Fig. 6: Hand-drawn map of US speech regions by a Chicago, Illinois European American male
(age 18 in 1984) (Preston 1996b: 307)
This suggests that this conceptually oriented PD task has, nevertheless,
taken this respondent to a part of his experiential, perceptual storehouse,
but I have already discussed the likely inevitability of such transfers.
Hand-drawn maps also dig deeply into the conceptual world, not only for
the concepts of dialect areas but for the associated beliefs about speakers
and their varieties (e. g., here California is the homeland of High class Party-
ing slobs and Stuck up ...