The Low-Back-Merger Shift is a chain shift of vowel sounds found in several dialects of North American English, beginning in the last quarter of the 20th...
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and transcription delimiters. The cot–caught merger, also known as the LOT–THOUGHT merger or low back merger, is a sound change present in some dialects...
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the DRESS vowel in a chain shift first associated with California and led by young women: the low-back-merger shift. This shift is also documented in mainland...
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influenced by the Great Vowel Shift, as well as more recent developments in some dialects such as the cot–caught merger. In the Old English vowel system...
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the weak vowel merger (with affected and effected often pronounced the same), at least one of the LOT vowel mergers (the LOT–PALM merger is completed among...
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Standard Canadian English (section Low-back merger)
defined by the cot–caught merger to [ɒ] and an accompanying chain shift of vowel sounds, which is called the Canadian Shift. A subset of the dialect geographically...
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American English (redirect from From-rum merger)
reversed in most British English, simultaneously shifts this relatively recent CLOTH set into a merger with the THOUGHT (caught) set. Having taken place...
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/æ/ raising (category Splits and mergers in English phonology)
a following nasal does. In Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Central Canada, a merger of /æ/ with /eɪ/ before /ɡ/ has been reported, making, for example, haggle...
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younger speakers within the Inland North seem to be moving back away from the Northern Cities Shift of front lax vowels that were rising. Accents that have...
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Standard Canadian English, this dialect features rhoticity, the Low Back Merger Shift, and GOOSE fronting (led by women speakers). Canadian raising also...
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