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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-14-09 05:23 PM
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15. That is very true.
large vowel systems tend to be unstable and shift around a lot, even in a single generation. My mom's vowels are perfectly "standard" Upper-Midwestern (General American but monophthongal /e/ and /o/), but I am caught-cot and dawn-Don merged and have the start of the Northern Cities vowel shift (raising of the vowel in "cat" and fronting of the merged cot-caught vowel). my 10yo niece has that and a backing and lowering of the vowel in "putt". The NCVS is taking over around here
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