The Low-Back-Merger Shift is a chain shift of vowel sounds found in several dialects of North American English, beginning in the last quarter of the 20th...

and transcription delimiters. The cot–caught merger, also known as the LOT–THOUGHT merger or low back merger, is a sound change present in some dialects...

influenced by the Great Vowel Shift, as well as more recent developments in some dialects such as the cot–caught merger. In the Old English vowel system...

the DRESS vowel in a chain shift first associated with California and led by young women: the low-back-merger shift. This shift is also documented in mainland...

the weak vowel merger (with affected and effected often pronounced the same), at least one of the LOT vowel mergers (the LOT–PALM merger is completed among...

defined by the cot–caught merger to [ɒ] and an accompanying chain shift of vowel sounds, which is called the Canadian Shift. A subset of the dialect geographically...

Standard Canadian English, this dialect features rhoticity, the Low Back Merger Shift, and GOOSE fronting (led by women speakers). Canadian raising also...

of a vowel-based chain shift in California (with a similar pattern now reported nationwide and known as the low back merger shift). The image in this section...

reversed in most British English, simultaneously shifts this relatively recent CLOTH set into a merger with the THOUGHT (caught) set. Having taken place...

Canadian English speakers to have the cot-caught merger, the father-bother merger, the Low-Back-Merger Shift (with the vowel in words such as "trap" moving...

layer [ˈɫeɪ.ə], or park [pʰɒək] (with the vowel rounded due to the low-back chain shift, though [pʰɑ̈ək] for earlier twentieth-century speakers). However...

Great Vowel Shift, and ENE /iː/ was usually the result of Middle English /eː/ (the effect in both cases was a raising of the vowel). The merger saw ENE /eː/...

can shift their pronunciation without changing diaphonemes due to lexical diffusion. The near–square merger or cheer–chair merger is the merger of the...

mare–mayor merger also exists. Several vowels undergo fronting. /aʊ/ fronts to [ɛɔ] or [æɔ]. /uː/ fronts to [ʉu]. Similarly, /oʊ/ shifts to [əʊ] or even...

a following nasal does. In Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Central Canada, a merger of /æ/ with /eɪ/ before /ɡ/ has been reported, making, for example, haggle...

use a rather high, back, and perhaps even rounded vowel for /ɑr/ as in START; something near [ɔ]. The so-called horse–hoarse merger takes place, and the...

(from the vein–vain merger) became monophthongized and merged with the /ɛː/ of words like name (which before the Great Vowel Shift had been long /aː/)...

Vowel Shift (CVS) has several identifying features. These include the low back vowel mergers of words such as bought and bot, fronting of back vowels...

language shift. The Māori language tends to pronounce "r" as usually an alveolar tap [ɾ], like in the Scottish dialect. Some phonemic mergers are characteristic...

vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of chain shifts that affected historical long vowels but left...

The open-mid back unrounded vowel or low-mid back unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...

p. 61. Herold, Ruth (1990). Mechanisms of Merger: The Implementation and Distribution of the Low Back Merger in Eastern Pennsylvania (Ph.D. diss. thesis)...

The open-mid back rounded vowel, or low-mid back rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International...

/miːs/ to /maɪs/), and the low back vowel /aː/ was fronted, causing name to change from /naːmə/ to /neːm/. The Great Vowel Shift occurred over centuries...

pin–pen merger South = /aɪ/ is monophthongized, encouraging the Southern Shift ([a] ← /aɪ/ ← /eɪ/ ← /i/ and drawling) + pin–pen merger Inland South = Back Upglide...

the language for words spelled with the letter ⟨a⟩. Most of these go back to the low vowel (the "short A") of earlier Middle English, which later developed...

take place as part of a chain shift. For example, in the Northern Cities Shift, the raising of /æ/ left room in the low-front area of the vowel space...

and [ɔː], respectively) the cot–caught merger toward [ɑ̈] Cajun English is not subject to the Southern Vowel Shift. A separate historical English dialect...

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/ɑ/ stays back in the mouth, leading to a cot–caught merger to [ɑ]; this whole process consistently follows the logic of the Canadian Shift of Standard...