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Publication details [#30501]
Anderson, B.L. 2002. Dialect leveling and /ai/ monophthongization among African American Detroiters. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6 (1) : 86–98. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
1360-6441
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper reports a Detroit African American English levelling pattern in which /ai/ monophthongization has expanded to the salient pre-voiceless context, a sound change typically associated with some White, but not African American, varieties in the American South.