§ 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... 22 KB (2,410 words) - 20:13, 8 April 2024 |
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... 31 KB (2,886 words) - 21:23, 18 April 2024 |
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... 20 KB (2,083 words) - 22:48, 26 November 2023 |
/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... 24 KB (2,876 words) - 17:36, 8 April 2024 |
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... 81 KB (9,047 words) - 01:32, 15 March 2024 |
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... 37 KB (2,536 words) - 02:19, 13 March 2024 |
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... 16 KB (2,015 words) - 16:54, 7 April 2024 |
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... 92 KB (9,394 words) - 07:41, 19 April 2024 |
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... 75 KB (6,530 words) - 02:42, 26 April 2024 |
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... 82 KB (9,043 words) - 11:51, 29 April 2024 |
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... 76 KB (8,771 words) - 00:43, 23 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (2,037 words) - 14:57, 2 April 2024 |
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... 33 KB (2,721 words) - 04:45, 16 February 2024 |
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... 53 KB (5,419 words) - 22:20, 31 March 2024 |
vowel, matching the cot-caught merger of White Pittsburgh accents, though AAVE accents traditionally do not have the cot-caught merger. Memphis, Atlanta... 99 KB (10,874 words) - 18:05, 27 April 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,692 words) - 20:19, 28 April 2024 |
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... 31 KB (3,641 words) - 13:05, 7 March 2024 |
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... 35 KB (3,572 words) - 18:01, 19 April 2024 |
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... 23 KB (2,479 words) - 02:48, 9 December 2023 |
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... 15 KB (977 words) - 16:51, 22 January 2024 |
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... 14 KB (1,542 words) - 14:29, 18 January 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,641 words) - 10:06, 3 March 2024 |
English-language vowel changes before historic /l/ (redirect from Fill–feel merger) sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers. A number of these changes are specific to vowels which occur before /l/... 47 KB (4,286 words) - 23:48, 16 April 2024 |
Great Vowel Shift (section Later mergers) during the 16th and the 17th centuries, there were many different mergers, and some mergers can be seen in individual Modern English words like great, which... 29 KB (2,820 words) - 21:02, 15 April 2024 |
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... 25 KB (2,747 words) - 20:31, 11 April 2024 |
distinguish /ɔ/ from /ɑ/ and merge them into /ɑ/, except before /r/ (see cot–caught merger). Australian has the bad–lad split, with distinctive short and long... 112 KB (12,222 words) - 07:54, 14 April 2024 |