English in Canada: phonology

As recently as 1948, Morton Bloomfield (1948: 59) was justified in remarking that very little research had been devoted to Canadian English, especially in comparison to American or British English. The projected Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada, which produced groundbreaking studies of dialect variation along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, was never extended to Canada, beyond a few scattered informants in New Brunswick, Ontario, and Manitoba, interviewed in connection with studies of American English across the border. Since the 1950s, however, research on Canadian English has proliferated. It now comprises a substantial body of material focused on four major themes:

1) the historical origins of Canadian English;

2) alternation among American and British words, pronunciations, and usage in Canada;

3) the documentation of relic areas and traditional regional enclaves; and

4) Canadian Raising, the articulation of the diphthongs /aʊ/ and /aɪ/ with non-low nuclei when they occur before voiceless consonants, which became a standard example of the need for ordered rules in generative phonology.

 

Overviews of the research in these areas can be found in Avis (1973), Bailey (1982) and Chambers (1979, 1991). We will focus on the sound of Canadian English, and in particular on those phonological and phonetic variables that are most useful for distinguishing Canadian English from other varieties, and for identifying regional varieties within Canada.

 

The origins of Canadian English have been studied in light of the history of the settlement of Canada and will be briefly addressed in 2.1, below. The contributions of traditional dialectological research to determining the status of Canadian English in relation to American and British English will discuss three phonological features of Canadian English.

الاكثر قراءة في Phonology

Minimal pairs and sets

Aspiration

Phones and allophones

Assimilations

Finding the underlying form

The Sonority Sequencing Generalization

Major class features

Feature geometry

Standard lexical sets

Bukusu: nasal+consonant combinations

Place of articulation

Allophony in other languages

Floating tones

Natural classes

Dissimilation

اخر الاخبار

اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

يجسد قيم النهضة الحسينية.. قسم الشؤون الفكرية يصدر العدد 120 من مجلة (حيدرة) الثقافية

ضمن حملة الكفيل العتبة العباسية المقدسة تحيي مراسم ليلة الحادي عشر من المحرم في سامراء

المجمع العلمي يحيي عاشوراء بخدمة الزائرين وإقامة مجالس العزاء ببغداد والحمزة الشرقي

المؤمنون يحيون ليلة الحادي عشر من المحرّم عند مرقدي الإمام الحسين وأخيه العباس (عليهما السلام)

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

تناول الجبن.. مفيد للجسم أم خطر يهدد صحتك؟

طبيبة أسنان تحذر.. لا تتجاهل هذه العلامة بعد التنظيف

يجب أن تأكل المزيد من الشمام هذا الصيف.. إليك السبب ؟

تأثير صحي كبير.. كم بيضة يجب أن تتناول يوميا؟

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

أداء خلايا البيروفسكايت الشمسية تحت الماء قد يزيد كفاءة تحويل الكهرباء

مسافة الأمان: أساس القيادة الآمنة وتجنب الحوادث

هل القيادة السريعة تعني استهلاك اكثر للوقود؟

لماذا يعتبر كوكب المريخ غير صالح للحياة؟

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Spelling and Pronunciation SUMMARY

American English vs. British English

Morphological Basis of English Spelling

Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English Vowels

Phoneme–Grapheme Correspondences in English Consonants

Spelling and Pronunciation Irregularity of English Spelling

Structural Factors in Second Language Phonology SUMMARY

Perception

Optimality Theory (OT)

Ontogeny Phylogeny Model (OPM)

Markedness

Hypercontrast