For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the development of
American English, and" New England accents" are very well known in the popular …

In this study, I present acoustic data on vowel formant dynamics from 54 natives of Cowlitz
County, Washington, a region where English has not been analyzed sociolinguistically. The …

Arabic historical dialectology has long been based on a historical methodology, one which
seeks to link historical population movements with modern linguistic behavior. This article …

Change charting the course for deeper investigation of key regional American vowel chain
shifts taking both a linguistic and social perspective. But it seems safe to describe the last …

This study aims to (1) identify current geographic patterns of major New England dialect
features relative to prior work in previous generations and (2) test the effectiveness of large …

The Low-Back-Merger Shift (LBMS) is a major North American vowel chain shift spreading
across many disparate dialect regions. In this field-based study, we examine the speech of …

In keeping with the work in this volume (Becker 2019), we investigate the relationship
between the Low Back Merger and the Low-Back-Merger Shift (LBMS), specifically to …

Although dialectologists have studied Eastern New England (ENE) for generations, the
dialect features of the Black/African American community are still understudied (Nagy and …

Previous research on speech in Vermont has revealed evidence of dialect leveling but with
much individual variation. the purpose of the current study of the raising and fronting of/aʊ/in …

Traditional eastern New England (ENE) dialect features are rapidly receding in many parts
of northern New England. Because this ENE shift involves seven different phonological …