§ Brackets 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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Phonological history of English open back vowels (redirect from Father–bother merger)
as well as more recent developments in some dialects such as the cot–caught merger. In the Old English vowel system, the vowels in the open back area...
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versus Southern New England English, especially on the basis of the cot–caught merger and /ɑr/ fronting (applying twice, for example, in the phrase Park...
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Phonological history of English diphthongs (redirect from Cot-coat merger)
Zulu English often also has a cot-caught merger, so that sets like "cot", "caught" and "coat" can be homophones. This merger can also be found in some broad...
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so-called cot–caught merger. Northeastern New England, Canadian, and Western Pennsylvania accents, as well as all accents of the Western U.S. have a merger of...
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/ɪ/ (the short-i of kit). It is triggered by the cot–caught merger: /ɑ/ (as in cot) and /ɔ/ (as in caught) merge as [ɒ], a low back rounded vowel. As each...
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shared in neighboring Eastern New England English. The status of the cot–caught merger in Western New England is inconsistent, being complete in the north...
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vowels occurs towards the center or even the front of the mouth; the cot–caught merger is neither fully completed nor fully absent; and short-a tensing evidently...
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Rhoticity in English (redirect from Caught-court merger)
with the pawn-porn merger also have the same vowels in caught and court (a merger of THOUGHT and FORCE), yielding a three-way merger of awe-or-ore/oar...
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American English (redirect from From-rum merger)
Midwest and the South. American accents that have not undergone the cot–caught merger (the lexical sets LOT and THOUGHT) have instead retained a LOT–CLOTH...
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