§ Brackets 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...
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Phonological history of English open back vowels (redirect from Father–bother merger)
as well as more recent developments in some dialects such as the cot–caught merger. In the Old English vowel system, the vowels in the open back area...
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versus Southern New England English, especially on the basis of the cot–caught merger and /ɑr/ fronting (applying twice, for example, in the phrase Park...
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so-called cot–caught merger. Northeastern New England, Canadian, and Western Pennsylvania accents, as well as all accents of the Western U.S. have a merger of...
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/ɪ/ (the short-i of kit). It is triggered by the cot–caught merger: /ɑ/ (as in cot) and /ɔ/ (as in caught) merge as [ɒ], a low back rounded vowel. As each...
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Phonological history of English diphthongs (redirect from Cot-coat merger)
Zulu English often also has a cot-caught merger, so that sets like "cot", "caught" and "coat" can be homophones. This merger can also be found in some broad...
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shared in neighboring Eastern New England English. The status of the cot–caught merger in Western New England is inconsistent, being complete in the north...
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Rhoticity in English (redirect from Caught-court merger)
with the pawn-porn merger also have the same vowels in caught and court (a merger of THOUGHT and FORCE), yielding a three-way merger of awe-or-ore/oar...
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vowels occurs towards the center or even the front of the mouth; the cot–caught merger is neither fully completed nor fully absent; and short-a tensing evidently...
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American English (redirect from From-rum merger)
Midwest and the South. American accents that have not undergone the cot–caught merger (the lexical sets LOT and THOUGHT) have instead retained a LOT–CLOTH...
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Phonological history of English vowels (redirect from Tense–lax merger)
the word gone. The cot–caught merger is a phonemic merger that occurs in some varieties of English causing the vowel in words like cot, rock, and doll to...
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Flapping (redirect from Intervocalic t–d merger)
hospital [ˈɒspɪdʊ] and whatever [wɒˈdɛvə]. That too results in a (variable) merger with /d/, whereas the tap does not. In Cardiff English, the alveolar tap...
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Standard Canadian English (section Low-back merger)
English. In particular, Standard Canadian English is defined by the cot–caught merger to [ɒ] and an accompanying chain shift of vowel sounds, which is called...
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horse–hoarse merger, /ɔr/ also includes the historic /oʊr/ in words such as glory and force. When an accent also features the cot–caught merger, /ɔr/ is typically...
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vowel, matching the cot-caught merger of White Pittsburgh accents, though AAVE accents traditionally do not have the cot-caught merger. Memphis, Atlanta...
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class also includes the THOUGHT class (see cot-caught merger) and the PALM one (see father-bother merger). In addition, LOT may be longer than STRUT...
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towards [ä], and /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ merge (cot and stock are sounding more like caught and stalk): the cot-caught merger. Other vowel changes, whose relation...
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or transitioning cot–caught merger: The historical distinction between the two vowels sounds /ɔ/ and /ɑ/, in words like caught and cot or stalk and stock...
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Phonological history of English consonant clusters (redirect from Yew–hew merger)
them to pronounce ⟨wh-⟩ the same as ⟨w-⟩ (sometimes called the wine–whine merger or glide cluster reduction). The distinction is maintained, however, in...
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Phonological change (redirect from Phonemic merger)
phonemic merger in American English is the cot–caught merger by which the vowel phonemes /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ (illustrated by the words cot and caught respectively)...
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Lenin and Lennon are homophonous, a dialectal feature called the weak vowel merger. GA /ɜr/ and /ər/ are realised as an r-coloured vowel [ɚ], as in further...
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comparable to the "aw" of the English word raw in dialects without the cot–caught merger, in contrast to omicron which represented the close-mid back rounded...
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for 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"...
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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...
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found the older horse–hoarse merger to be currently embraced by all ages; however, it also found the newer cot–caught merger to be resisted, despite the...
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Pronunciation of English ⟨wh⟩ (redirect from Whine-wine merger)
become /w/ in most modern varieties of English is called the wine–whine merger. It is also referred to as glide cluster reduction. Before rounded vowels...
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Received Pronunciation are the merger of the vowels of "caught" and "cot" ([kɔːt] and [kɒt] in RP) in many accents, and the merger of "father" (RP [ˈfɑːðə])...
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Western, Inland Northern, and Canadian dialect regions. If a strict cot–caught merger is used to define the North-Central regional dialect, it covers the...
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York City and eastern coastal New England). A common lack of the cot–caught merger, meaning that words like pond and pawned, or bot and bought, are not...
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Phonological history of English close back vowels (redirect from Dew–new merger)
various dialects of English, focusing in particular on phonemic splits and mergers involving these sounds. The Old English vowels included a pair of short...
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