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Naomi
Nagy and Julie
Roberts
Data collected by Linguistics
505 students at UNH
We present dialect maps showing geographically-based
variation for the following phonological variables:
- Low back merger
(Do "father" and "bother" rhyme?)
- Post-alveolar palatalization
(Do the first vowels in "Tuesday", "news", and
"student" sound like the "oo" in "food" or the
"u" in "use"?)
- Front vowel mergers before /r/
(Do "Mary" and "merry" sound the same?)
Regions examined
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# surveys distributed |
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Breakdown of surveys analyzed here |
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#surveys distributed in 1998 |
600+ |
New Hampshire |
violet |
160 |
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# surveys returned in 1998 |
595 |
Massachusetts |
green |
162 |
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# surveys analyzed here |
387 |
Vermont |
blue |
65 |
Post-alveolar palatalization
Do the first vowels in "Tuesday", "news", and
"student" sound like the "oo" in "food" or the
"u" in "use"?
Front vowel mergers before /r/
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