Black Country English in the Spotlight: A Stylistic Analysis of Variable Contrast between Phonemes in an Urban Regiolect of British English
When examining the COT /CAUGHT merger in central Pennsylvania, Labov (1994) uncovered a stylistic phenomenon, known as the “ Bill Peters Effect” , whereby speakers heavily differentiate between /ɑ/ and /ɔː/ in spontaneous speech, but converge the two lexical sets into a near-merger situation during...
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University of Edinburgh
2016-08-01
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| Serier: | Lifespans and Styles |
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| Online adgang: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/lifespansstyles/article/view/1613 |
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