[PDF.43ff] Small-Town Values, Big-City Vowels: A Study of the Northern Cities Shift in Michigan (Publication of the American Dialect Society)

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This book presents a sociolinguistic study of the Northern Cities Shift, a complex pattern of vowel changes heard across the traditional Inland North dialect region of the United States. The study reports on how residents of small towns are reacting to these changes, which are associated with urban speech. Utilizing both quantitative and qualitative evidence, the author offers a richly detailed account of the sociolinguistic distribution of the ch...

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