The Canadian Shift in Montreal
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The Canadian Shift in Montreal
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| 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.
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Language Variation and Change
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Vol. 17
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no. 2
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133-154
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July 2005
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| Language |
en
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| Citation |
Boberg, Charles. “The Canadian Shift in Montreal.” Language Variation and Change Vol. 17, no. 2 (July 2005): 133–154.
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