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Publication details [#55162]

Salmons, Joseph C., Ewa Jacewicz and Robert Allen Fox. 2011. Cross-generational vowel change in American English. Language Variation and Change 23 (1) : 45–86.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | language change | vowel

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study on cross-generational changes in the vowel systems in central Ohio, southeastern Wisconsin, and western North Carolina, referred to as the “North American Shift,” conforms to the main principles of chain shifting as formulated by Labov (1994) and others.