canada: price and mouth raising wells 3 6.2.4 p.495
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Canada:PRICE and MOUTH Raising
Wells 3 6.2.4 p.495
PRICE and MOUTH Raising
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PRICE and MOUTH Raising
Simplification: this is what it often sounds like to us:
PRICE and MOUTH Raising
Which of the following words would show raising?
lighter hiking rising quite bridesgroom wire ripe shy ice eyes spy spies price prize
round about town crowd doubt shout sound
PRICE and MOUTH Raising
NB only when the following fortis occurs in same syllable, as with Fortis Clipping in RP:• “white elephant” but not “why telephone”• “a lout” but not “ allow to go”
Canadian Raising does not occur in some rural Newfoundland speech
PRICE and MOUTH Raisingwith T-Voicing
RP Canadian
Hi Petur,I'm not an expert by any means, but I know that we Canadians consider there to be some differences in the speech of people from different areas in Canada- although they are slight.
For example, the speaker in your first example (about the woman's first trip to Iceland) is from somewhere in Ontario : Ontarians and especially those from Toronto/Ottawa use a wider /æ/vowel in words like "can" or "and", and this sounds much more similar to General American than to the pronunciation of people from western Canada.
Also, there is an interesting dialect area in and south of Winnipeg, Manitoba which is considered to be related to the speech of German Mennonites who were historical settlers in the area. The speakers of Mennonite background in this area have a distinct lack of diphthonging in words like "know" and tend to have very closed, long /o/ vowels, including in words like "about".
I know that Canadians can hear the difference in the English of an aboriginal speaker, a speaker from the east coast, and someone from eastern Ontario.
Best regards,Melanie
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