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In:The Sounds of New Orleans: A sociophonetic study
Dana Serditova
[Varieties of English Around the World G74] 2026
► pp. 46–61

Chapter 3
Linguistic heritage

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Article outline
  • 3.1Phonology
    • Rhoticity
    • COIL/CURL reversal
    • FACE
    • GOOSE
    • GOAT
    • LOT~THOUGHT
    • PALM~THOUGHT
    • MOUTH
    • The split short-a system
    • Word initial th-stopping
    • Word-final consonant cluster simplification
    • Ask metathesis
    • New Orleans—New York comparison
  • 3.2Morphosyntax
  • 3.3Lexical items
    • Uptown/downtown and other contrasts
    • Lagniappe
    • Neutral ground
    • Laissez-faire
    • Yat
    • Second lines
    • Batture
    • Jazz funerals
    • Ain’t dere no more
    • Mardi Gras and its vocabulary
    • Voodoo and related lexical features
    • Cuisine and culinary vocabulary
    • Folk linguistic accounts and the social recognition of local speech
  • Notes
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