The eastern half of New York State is a dialectologically diverse region around which
several dialect regions converge—the Inland North, New York City, Western New England …

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 …

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 …

Hans Kurath's 1939 Linguistic Atlas of New England reported a significant east-west dialect
contrast along the Green Mountains of Vermont. In 1987, using data from 1960s fieldwork for …

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

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 …

This dissertation explores the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation by 5; 0 to 6; 0 year old
children in a public bilingual immersion elementary school setting. It shows how children at …

This article investigates the relationship between the Boston speech community and two
New Hampshire (NH) speech communities with respect to the phonetic status of short-a …

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