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Query Subject:	American Vowel Shift
Author:	Johanna Rubba
Submitter Email:	click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):	Phonetics Phonology Sociolinguistics

Query:	A student of mine is working on a So. Cal. vowel shift. We need two things: (1) A program she can use to train herself to hear minute vowel differences and associate them with the correct IPA symbols. (2) We are looking for recordings that demonstrate the Northern Cities Vowel Shift. I heard about samples in which a speaker would say a word in isolation (e.g., [blak]), then in a context. For this word, to a NE ear, she would be saying ''black'', but she was actually saying ''block''. Does anyone know of a source of these samples, on the web or via library loan? I found one website (at U of AZ)that supposedly had such samples, but I got no audio when clicking on the example word. Thanks for any help! Johanna Rubba Associate Professor, Linguistics English Department, California Polytechnic State University One Grand Avenue San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
LL Issue:	15.2809
Date posted:	07-Oct-2004
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