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Acoustic Phonetic Evidence Of Masking Between [Ʌ] And [Ɔ] In Central Minnesota English, Ettien Koffi, Connor Hanzsek-Brill
Acoustic Phonetic Evidence Of Masking Between [Ʌ] And [Ɔ] In Central Minnesota English, Ettien Koffi, Connor Hanzsek-Brill
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Since the Great Vowel Shift began in the 1400s, English vowels have been in a state of flux (Fromkin et al. 2017:331). Labov et al. (2006) have documented two macrolevel shifts in North American English: The Northern Cities Shift and The Southern Shift. At a microlevel, vowel shifts are happening in various regions of the US, as amply described in Wolfram and Ward (2006). However, vowel shifts in Minnesota English are poorly documented, except for stereotypical portrayals in popular culture. A shift involving [ʌ] and [ɔ] is quietly underway. It drew our attention only because of a misunderstanding between a …
An Acoustic Phonetic Investigation Of The Similarities And Differences Between Northern And Central Minnesota English, Ettien Koffi, Michel Lopez-Backstrom
An Acoustic Phonetic Investigation Of The Similarities And Differences Between Northern And Central Minnesota English, Ettien Koffi, Michel Lopez-Backstrom
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Northern Minnesota English is a dialect that is suspected to be perceptually different from other Minnesota dialects (Bartholdi 2015). The current study seeks to investigate whether there is any acoustic phonetic evidence to prove and/or disprove these impressionistic claims. To do this, acoustic data was collected from twenty participants from Northern Minnesota who uttered 11 different English vowels ([i, ɪ, e, ɛ, æ, ɑ, ɔ, o, ʊ, u, ʌ]). Those utterances were then compared and contrasted with vowel sounds uttered by 32 Central Minnesota English speakers, which were originally collected by Koffi (2013). The findings from this study confirm the …