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/æ/ raising

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41: 1374:. In other open syllables, /æ/ tends to stay lax, regardless of the following consonant. (Contrasting that with the distinction between /ɒ/ and /ɔ/, Labov et al. reported that, in New York City, /sæd/ and /sɛəd/ were heard as the same word, but /sɒd/ and /sɔd/ were heard as two different words, suggesting minimal pairs of /æ/ and /ɛə/ to be not as likely in New York City as in Philadelphia.) 2285:
is raised and diphthongized in all possible environments: a "general raising" system. The Inland North dialect is spoken in such areas as Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. However, a reversal of the raising (except before nasal consonants) has been observed in at least
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Labov finds the New York split system in New Orleans with similar variations. As in older Cincinnati, tensing may also occur before voiced fricatives. As in Northern New Jersey, the function constraint is virtually absent. However, closer to the split of New York City proper, the open syllable
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split), the terms "raising" and "tensing" can be used interchangeably. Phonemic tensing occurs in the dialects of New York City and the Mid-Atlantic States (centering on the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore). It is similar in its word patterns but not in its resulting pronunciation to the
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Labov finds the remnants of the New York split system present in the now-declining traditional dialect of Cincinnati, with similar variations to Northern New Jersey and Albany. Like in Albany, the open-syllable constraint is completely absent. However, the function word
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occupy a continuum of varying degrees of height and tenseness between both extremes, with a variety of phonetic and phonological factors interacting (sometimes differently in different dialects) to determine the height and tenseness of any particular example of
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Like in Northern New Jersey, Labov finds that the New York split system has also diffused in Albany with some alterations. Although the function is lost in Northern New Jersey, Labov reports that the function constraint is weakened only in Albany. Thus,
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is either tense or lax, with no intermediate realizations. However, in both of these types of system, the degree of raising depends on the context in which the vowel appears, meaning all degrees of tensing are
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tensing in that it occurs before voiceless fricatives in the same syllable and before nasals in certain environments, and both phenomena involve replacement of the short lax vowel
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is usually raised and tensed to before nasals, but instead of a sharp divide between a high, tense allophone before nasals and a low, lax one before other consonants,
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The New York City split system has also diffused, often with slightly different conditioning, into Albany, Cincinnati, New Orleans, and nearby parts of New Jersey.
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Labov further reports consistently laxing before /g/. In New York, tensing before voiced fricatives is variable, but it is reported as consistent in Cincinnati.
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may be lax. Also, the open syllable constraint is variable in Northern New Jersey, but Labov reports that in Albany, that constraint is absent altogether. Thus,
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as a result of a phonemic split. The distribution between /æ/ and /ɛə/ is largely predictable. In New York City, tensing occurs uniformly in closed
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is lengthened to in some conditions. The most significant differences from the Philadelphia system described here are that dialects that split
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In certain traditional regional dialects of American English, however, including the New York City and Philadelphia ones, using a tense short-
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that use the Philadelphia and General American accents for reference as, respectively, phonemic and non-phonemic accents:
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system than New York City, but it is similar in that it is also a split system. Tensing does not occur before voiced
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In Northern New Jersey, Labov finds the New York City split system, though with some variability. East of the
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that occurs only in certain phonological environments or certain words. The most common context for tensing
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Philadelphia/Baltimore exceptions include the New York exceptions listed above, as well as the following:
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For speakers in much of Canada and in the North-Central and the Northwestern United States, a following
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area have been reported to have a system that is very similar to the phonemic split of New York.
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Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
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vowel rather than a lax one could actually change the identity of a word, meaning that "short
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University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 22.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 44
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constraint is still retained. Also, the tense variant appears to always be present before
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phenomenon, which then prevents the split; 'sad' is long; and lengthening can occur before
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being the greatest and speakers with the nasal system being most concentrated, in eastern
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in an open syllable gets truncated to a single closed syllable, the vowel remains lax:
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in General American and RP) may be raised to before nasal consonants. In the case of
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For some speakers this raising is substantial, yet for others it is nonexistent.
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raising at all but uses what has been called the "Southern drawl" instead, with
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English fall under that category. The system resembles the nasal system in that
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Most American and many Canadian English speakers, at the very least, display an
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of Australian English and some Southern British dialects in which a short flat
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Boberg, Charles (Spring 2001). "Phonological Status of Western New England".
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is raised and tensed most severely but not necessarily exclusively before
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Words with initial /æ/ are usually lax, except for the most common words
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Wagner, S. E.; Mason, A.; Nesbitt, M.; Pevan, E.; Savage, M. (2016).
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Proceedings of the 26th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
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2882:"Regional phonetic differentiation in Standard Canadian English" 901:(as in "He was manning the vehicle") uses the tense vowel as in 2501: 2499: 905:. Therefore, such dialects have a phonemic split of the "short 852:-tensing system, there is no continuum; any given instance of 848:, depending on the context in which it appears. In a discrete 3004:
Mielke, Jeff; Carignan, Christopher; Thomas, Erik R. (2017).
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is a "continuous system", which also revolves around "short
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some communities in which it has been studied, including
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Distinction between phonemic and non-phonemic /æ/ raising
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In New York City, certain lexical exceptions exist (like
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University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
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In New York City and Philadelphia, most function words (
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The realization of this "tense" (as opposed to "lax")
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Baker, Adam; Mielke, Jeff; Archangeli, Diana (2008).
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American and Canadian English phonological phenomenon
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Abbreviated words or personal names are usually lax
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with a longer and tenser vowel. However, the "broad
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Not to be confused with 3014:The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2915:""Tense" /æ/ is still lax: A phonotactics study" 1366:, in both closed and open syllables, such as in 1227:of certain British English accents, notably the 2395: 2393: 1262:" is lower and backer than , and the result of 686:, etc.) and some learned or less common words ( 2749: 2737: 2691: 2662: 2626: 2599: 2575: 2563: 2532: 2517: 2505: 2473: 2461: 2449: 2437: 765:being tense) and variability is common before 2821:Cox, Felicity; Palethorpe, Sallyanne (2014). 2689: 2687: 2685: 2683: 2681: 2679: 2677: 2675: 2673: 2671: 2400:Cox, Felicity; Palethorpe, Sallyanne (2007). 1650:tensing only occurs before nasal consonants. 373: 8: 1358:). Tensing occurs much more variably before 787:In New Orleans, additionally occurs before 1218:phonemic split system (or, simply, a short- 49:Examples of /æ/ raising in American English 380: 366: 360: 3034: 2422: 909:" vowel, sometimes called a "split short- 678: 676: 674: 672: 2253:has been reported, making, for example, 2049:camp, man, ram, pan, ran, clamber, Sammy 1780: 931: 740:may be lowered and retracted as much as 3062:Splits and mergers in English phonology 2376: 732: 730: 668: 2611: 2559: 2547: 2490: 2322:, the raised allophone approaches the 2098:More widespread among speakers of the 1316:is traditionally an entirely separate 330: 184: 2650: 2638: 2588:Baker, Mielke & Archangeli (2008) 1564:Certain one-off exceptions (The word 699:In Philadelphia, the irregular verbs 519: 499: 7: 2726:Mielke, Carignan & Thomas (2017) 282:: a combination of greater raising, 213:is a phenomenon by which the "short 2987:The Atlas of North American English 2798:Driscoll, Anna; Lape, Emma (2015). 2716:Labov, "Transmission and Diffusion" 2273:In accents that have undergone the 2138:The pattern most characteristic of 1246:" sound. The environment of "broad 994:A knife can halve the bread in two. 2059:calls the "nasal system" in which 1377:Exceptions include the following: 893:is pronounced with a lax vowel as 185:Problems playing these files? See 25: 1766:, with the only exceptions being 1037:He was manning the control panel. 306:(thus, for example, commonly in 222: 165: 139: 113: 87: 61: 2170:. Also, some speakers from the 1410:Learned words (often including 1266:tensing is higher and fronter. 1235:dialects, which creates a new " 839:to a tense-vowel pronunciation 350:vowel transcribed with ⟨ 2886:Journal of English Linguistics 2750:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2738:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2663:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2627:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2600:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2576:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2564:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2533:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2518:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2506:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2474:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2462:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2450:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 2438:Labov, Ash & Boberg (2006) 1893:When a polysyllabic word with 1462:is added to a word with tense 1166:We'll plan it after breakfast. 321:includes variants such as , , 249:vowel (found in such words as 1: 2989:. 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In the case of 2288:Lansing, Michigan 1887: 1886: 1736:voiced fricatives 1203: 1202: 804: 803: 716:In Philadelphia, 688:alas, carafe, lad 649:as, back, happy, 635:ask, bath, half, 170: 144: 118: 92: 66: 16:(Redirected from 3069: 3048: 3038: 3010: 3000: 2974: 2940: 2930: 2909: 2876: 2860: 2841: 2840: 2838: 2837: 2832:. pp. 33–36 2827: 2818: 2812: 2811: 2795: 2789: 2788: 2786: 2785: 2779: 2773:. 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Index

Flat A
A-flat
camp, with and without raising
can, with and without raising
hang, with and without raising
language, with and without raising
thank you, with and without raising
media help
sociolinguistics
vowel
/æ/

raising
American
Canadian English
tensing
fronting
lengthening
gliding
North American English
nasal consonant
ɛː
[ɛə]
Australian English
v
t
e
/æ/ raising
North American English
New York City

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