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Publication details [#44925]

Salmons, Joseph C., Ewa Jacewicz and Robert Allen Fox. 2006. Prosodic prominence effects on vowels in chain shifts. Language Variation and Change 18 (3) : 285–316.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | dialect1 | language change | prosody | vowel

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores the role of prosodic prominence in cross-generational vowel shift perseverance in two Midwestern dialects of American English—central Ohio and south-central Wisconsin.