Template:/æ/ raising in North American English
Appearance
Following consonant |
Example words[2] |
New York City, New Orleans[3] |
Baltimore, Philadelphia[4] |
Midland US, New England, Pittsburgh, Western US |
Southern US |
Canada, Northern Mountain US |
Minnesota, Wisconsin |
Great Lakes US | |
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Non-prevocalic /m, n/ |
fan, lamb, stand | [ɛə][5][A][B] | [ɛə][5] | [ɛə~ɛjə][8] | [ɛə][9] | [ɛə][10] | |||
Prevocalic /m, n/ |
animal, planet, Spanish |
[æ] | |||||||
/ŋ/[11] | frank, language | [ɛː~eɪ~æ][12] | [æ~æɛə][8] | [ɛː~ɛj][9] | [eː~ej][13] | ||||
Non-prevocalic /ɡ/ |
bag, drag | [ɛə][A] | [æ][C] | [æ][5][D] | |||||
Prevocalic /ɡ/ | dragon, magazine | [æ] | |||||||
Non-prevocalic /b, d, ʃ/ |
grab, flash, sad | [ɛə][A] | [æ][D][15] | [ɛə][15] | |||||
Non-prevocalic /f, θ, s/ |
ask, bath, half, glass |
[ɛə][A] | |||||||
Otherwise | as, back, happy, locality |
[æ][E] | |||||||
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- ^ Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), p. 182.
- ^ Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), pp. 173–174.
- ^ Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), pp. 173–174, 260–261.
- ^ Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), pp. 173–174, 238–239.
- ^ a b c Duncan (2016), pp. 1–2.
- ^ a b Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), p. 173.
- ^ Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), p. 238.
- ^ a b Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), pp. 178, 180.
- ^ a b Boberg (2008), p. 145.
- ^ Duncan (2016), pp. 1–2; Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), pp. 175–177.
- ^ Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), p. 183.
- ^ Baker, Mielke & Archangeli (2008).
- ^ Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), pp. 181–182.
- ^ Boberg (2008), pp. 130, 136–137.
- ^ a b Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006), pp. 82, 123, 177, 179.
- ^ Labov (2007), p. 359.
- ^ Labov (2007), p. 373.
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Required references
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- Baker, Adam; Mielke, Jeff; Archangeli, Diana (2008). "More velar than /g/: Consonant Coarticulation as a Cause of Diphthongization" (PDF). In Chang, Charles B.; Haynie, Hannah J. (eds.). Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. pp. 60–68. ISBN 978-1-57473-423-2.
- Boberg, Charles (2008). "Regional phonetic differentiation in Standard Canadian English". Journal of English Linguistics. 36 (2): 129–154. doi:10.1177/0075424208316648.
- Duncan, Daniel (2016). "'Tense' /æ/ is still lax: A phonotactics study" (PDF). In Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur; Farris-Trimble, Ashley; McMullin, Kevin; Pulleyblank, Douglas (eds.). Supplemental Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, D.C.: Linguistic Society of America. doi:10.3765/amp.v3i0.3653.
- Labov, William (2007). "Transmission and Diffusion" (PDF). Language. 83 (2): 344–387. doi:10.1353/lan.2007.0082. JSTOR 40070845.
- Labov, William; Ash, Sharon; Boberg, Charles (2006). The Atlas of North American English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-016746-7.