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The Atlas of North American English

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are represented by single letters, and each of the diphthongs and historically long vowels is represented by a nuclear vowel followed by a glide,
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defines several major dialect regions on the basis of distinctive phonological patterns and sound changes taking place in them—often
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concludes that regions are becoming more dissimilar to each other, and thus the dialect diversity of North America is increasing.
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employs a "binary" phonemic notation system designed to be maximally abstract and economical so that it can be used to describe
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represents an inglide or long monophthong. The following tables provide a comparison between
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On the basis of changes such as the Northern Cities Vowel Shift and the Canadian Shift, the
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The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change
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The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change
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and the absence of the distinctive features of the adjacent regions
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at the 2008 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
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Labov, William; Ash, Sharon; Boberg, Charles (2006).
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Dialectological map of English in the U.S. and Canada
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Index

Atlas of North American English
Anae
phonetic transcriptions
International Phonetic Alphabet
Help:IPA
IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters
accents
dialect
English language
United States
Canada
William Labov
Charles Boberg
North American English
boundaries between dialect regions
sound changes
Leonard Bloomfield Book Award
chain shifts
The Inland North
Northern Cities Vowel Shift
Canada
Canadian Vowel Shift
dialects in New England
cot-caught merger
non-rhoticity
New York City
æ-tensing
The Mid-Atlantic region
Philadelphia
Baltimore

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