The Canadian Shift in Montreal

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Title
The Canadian Shift in Montreal
Abstract
Based on an impressionistic study of sixteen young Canadians, mostly from Ontario, Clarke, Elms, and Youssef (1995) reported that the short front vowels of Canadian English are involved in a chain shift, the "Canadian Shift", triggered by the low-back rounded vowel. The author extends the study of the Canadian Shift to the English-speaking community of Montreal using acoustic rather than impressionistic analysis and a larger and more diverse sample. He found that the new data motivate a revised view of the Shift, at least as it operates in Montreal, in which the three front vowels are retracted in a set of parallel shifts, rather than rotating in a chain shift.
Publication
Language Variation and Change
Volume
Vol. 17
Issue
no. 2
Pages
133-154
Date
July 2005
Language
en
Citation
Boberg, Charles. “The Canadian Shift in Montreal.” Language Variation and Change Vol. 17, no. 2 (July 2005): 133–154.
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