This study examines the short-a system in Greater New Orleans (GNO) following the
demographic changes and large-scale displacement that occurred after Hurricane Katrina in …

Abstract The Filipino community in Winnipeg is unique, for that they are not only the largest
minority group in the city, they also settled primarily in the northwest area of the city, forming …

Abstract This dissertation examines Aroostook County English, an understudied variety
spoken at the border of Northern Maine (USA) and Western New Brunswick (Canada). The …

This study focuses on changes over apparent time in the/aw/vowel class (eg, mouth) in
Raleigh, a city in North Carolina whose speakers have undergone vocalic changes away …

Phonological patterns often involve factors other than the surface phonetic form of the
utterance, abstract factors such as underlying representation (opacity, Kiparsky 1971, 1973) …

Abstract" Dialect B," a diphthong raising pattern conditioned by a following obstruent's
surface voicing, was first observed by Joos (1942) among Canadian schoolchildren. It has …

“Where are you from?” is the question one often hears in the United States. Many English
speakers from the Southern United States can hardly avoid this question (similar to speakers …

This thesis presents an acoustic analysis of a collected corpus of Southern Alberta and
Saskatchewan English (SASE). Acoustic information of vowels (formant values, duration …

This thesis examines patterns of linguistic diffusion in the context of a national border,
looking at the potential spread of Canadian and American English variants between the …

The Southern United States have long been known for language diversity, yet linguistic
research in this region has often focused on broad descriptions of characteristics of …