An introduction to: trisyllabic laxing, vowel shift, and Canadian raising
Date
1975-01
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University of Calgary
Abstract
In our English language we have a number of words that we know are somehow the same and yet we pronounce them very differently. Let's take a look at the phonetic form of some of these words, in particular, certain vowel sounds.
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English language--Canada, Linguistics, Dialectology, Canadian raising, Trisyllabic laxing, Vowel shift, Phonetics
Citation
Rempel, R. (1975). An introduction to: trisyllabic laxing, vowel shift, and Canadian raising. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 1(Winter), 3-7.