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    General Features: Zinziura Olga Group 63

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    This document summarizes several features of Southern American English dialects: 1) Southern dialects are variable in their rhoticity, with some areas pronouncing "R" sounds strongly and others being non-rhotic. 2) Vowels may be monophthongized or broken into two syllables differently across dialects. Consonant clusters like "G" may be dropped in certain contexts. 3) The "Southern drawl" refers to a tendency to use elongated vowel sounds. The "Southern shift" describes three stages of vowel movement that characterize these dialects.

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    This document summarizes several features of Southern American English dialects: 1) Southern dialects are variable in their rhoticity, with some areas pronouncing "R" sounds strongly and others being non-rhotic. 2) Vowels may be monophthongized or broken into two syllables differently across dialects. Consonant clusters like "G" may be dropped in certain contexts. 3) The "Southern drawl" refers to a tendency to use elongated vowel sounds. The "Southern shift" describes three stages of vowel movement that characterize these dialects.

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    This document summarizes several features of Southern American English dialects: 1) Southern dialects are variable in their rhoticity, with some areas pronouncing "R" sounds strongly and others being non-rhotic. 2) Vowels may be monophthongized or broken into two syllables differently across dialects. Consonant clusters like "G" may be dropped in certain contexts. 3) The "Southern drawl" refers to a tendency to use elongated vowel sounds. The "Southern shift" describes three stages of vowel movement that characterize these dialects.

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    General Features: Zinziura Olga Group 63

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    This document summarizes several features of Southern American English dialects: 1) Southern dialects are variable in their rhoticity, with some areas pronouncing "R" sounds strongly and others being non-rhotic. 2) Vowels may be monophthongized or broken into two syllables differently across dialects. Consonant clusters like "G" may be dropped in certain contexts. 3) The "Southern drawl" refers to a tendency to use elongated vowel sounds. The "Southern shift" describes three stages of vowel movement that characterize these dialects.

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    General features

    Zinziura Olga
    Group 63
    Rhotacization
     To pronounce with an exaggerated 'R' sound
     Some areas are rhotic (Kentucky, Arkansas and
    Texas)
     Some areas are non-rhotic(Virginia, Alabama,
    Lousiana and Coastal Mississippi)
     Some dialects like to turn diphthongs into
    monophthongs
    Boy – [bɔ]
     Others like to break them into two syllables
    Boy -[bɔwi]
    G's dropping
     Drop g's from the ends of words when is
    needed
     Only in specific morphological environments
    Example: Fixin'
    Singin'
    Comin'
    Southern Drawl
     The drawl is a tendency to use long lazy vowels
     Drawl mostly means that the sounds are drawn
    out
    especially vowel sounds
    sometimes includes an extra schwa
    The Southern Shift and Southern
    Drawl
    Stage 1:/ai/- [a:]

    Extreme instances:
    "wire", "fire", "tire" and "retired"
    "war", "far", "tar" and "retard" respectively.
    The Southern Shift and Southern
    Drawl
    Stage 2:/e/- /ei/
    "Fish bait" – "fish bite"
    "Old lace" - " old bite"
    "Red" – "ray-ud" or "rih-yud"

    Most common in heavily stressed syllables!


    The Southern Shift and Southern
    Drawl
    Stage 3: /ɪ/ higher; /i/ lower
    "Hit" – "hee-it"
    "Feet" – "fih-eet" or "fuh-eet"

    Most common in heavily stressed syllables!



    Short "i" and short "e" when appearing
    before "n" or "m":
    "pen"="pin"
    [pɪn]

    Adjectives are
    often used to
    distinguish
    (e.g., "ink pen")
     An -er sound is often used for long "o"
    at the end of a word:
    "Hollow" /'halər/ homophonous with holler.
    "Potato" -"potader"
    "tomato"-" tomader"
    "tobacco"-" tobacker"
     H retention occuts at the beginning of
    certain words:
    "It"- [hit] at hte beginning of a sentence and
    also when emphasized.
    "Ain't"- [heint]
    Thank you for
    attention !

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