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Vowels CLOTH, THOUGHT  
  
1005   10:00 صباحاً   date: 2024-03-19
Author : Matthew J. Gordon
Book or Source : A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
Page and Part : 291-16

Vowels CLOTH, THOUGHT

Another speech feature shared by Philadelphians and New Yorkers is the raising of  to [o] or even higher. The raised variants often appear as diphthongs with a centering glide. Labov’s research suggest that this pattern of raising is essentially complete in Philadelphia and seems no longer to be an active change.