• § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The cotcaught merger, also known as the LOT–THOUGHT merger or low back merger, is a sound change present in some dialects...
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  • as well as more recent developments in some dialects such as the cotcaught 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 cotcaught merger and /ɑr/ fronting (applying twice, for example, in the phrase Park...
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  • /ɪ/ (the short-i of kit). It is triggered by the cotcaught merger: /ɑ/ (as in cot) and /ɔ/ (as in caught) merge as [ɒ], a low back rounded vowel. As each...
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  • so-called cotcaught 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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  • 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 cotcaught merger in Western New England is inconsistent, being complete in the north...
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  • 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 cotcaught merger is neither fully completed nor fully absent; and short-a tensing evidently...
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    Midwest and the South. American accents that have not undergone the cotcaught merger (the lexical sets LOT and THOUGHT) have instead retained a LOT–CLOTH...
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  • the word gone. The cotcaught 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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  • horse–hoarse merger, /ɔr/ also includes the historic /oʊr/ in words such as glory and force. When an accent also features the cotcaught merger, /ɔr/ is typically...
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    English. In particular, Standard Canadian English is defined by the cotcaught merger to [ɒ] and an accompanying chain shift of vowel sounds, which is called...
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  • 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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  • phonemic merger in American English is the cotcaught merger by which the vowel phonemes /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ (illustrated by the words cot and caught respectively)...
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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 cotcaught 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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  • comparable to the "aw" of the English word raw in dialects without the cotcaught merger, in contrast to omicron which represented the close-mid back rounded...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • found the older horse–hoarse merger to be currently embraced by all ages; however, it also found the newer cotcaught merger to be resisted, despite the...
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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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  • 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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    York City and eastern coastal New England). A common lack of the cotcaught merger, meaning that words like pond and pawned, or bot and bought, are not...
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  • Western, Inland Northern, and Canadian dialect regions. If a strict cotcaught merger is used to define the North-Central regional dialect, it covers the...
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  • 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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  • meet–meat merger or the FLEECE merger is the merger of the Early Modern English vowel /eː/ (as in meat) into the vowel /iː/ (as in meet). The merger was complete...
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