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192 relations: /æ/ raising, Acadian French, Acadiana, Accent perception, Adverb, African Americans, African-American English, African-American Vernacular English, Alabama, American Civil War, American English, American English regional vocabulary, Anglo-Frisian languages, Appalachia, Appalachian English, Arkansas, Armadillidiidae, Atlanta, Auxiliary verb, Bill Clinton, Bless your heart, British Isles, Cajun English, Cajuns, Canadian raising, Chain shift, Charleston, South Carolina, Chesapeake Bay, Christopher Marlowe, Civil rights movement, Code-switching, Coleslaw, Conservative and innovative language, Contraction (grammar), Cot–caught merger, Country music, Crayfish, Creole language, Dallas, Delaware, Demonstrative, Deontology, Dialect, Diphthong, Domino effect, Double negative, Drawl, Dust Bowl, Early Modern English, Edward II (play), ... Expand index (142 more) »
- African-American English
- Vowel shifts
/æ/ raising
In the sociolinguistics of the English language, raising or short-a raising is a phenomenon by which the "short a" vowel, the vowel (found in such words as lack and laugh), is pronounced with a raising of the tongue.
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Acadian French
Acadian French (français acadien, acadjonne) is a variety of French spoken by Acadians, mostly in the region of Acadia, Canada.
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Acadiana
Acadiana (French and Louisiana French: L'Acadiane), also known as the Cajun Country (Louisiana French: Le Pays Cadjin, País Cajún), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population.
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Accent perception
Accents are the distinctive variations in the pronunciation of a language.
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Adverb
An adverb is a word or an expression that generally modifies a verb, adjective, another adverb, determiner, clause, preposition, or sentence.
See Southern American English and Adverb
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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African-American English
African-American English (or AAE; or '''Ebonics''', also known as Black American English or simply Black English in American linguistics) is the set of English sociolects spoken by most Black people in the United States and many in Canada; most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more standard American English. Southern American English and African-American English are American English and culture of the Southern United States.
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African-American Vernacular English
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. Southern American English and African-American Vernacular English are African-American English.
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Alabama
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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American English regional vocabulary
Regional vocabulary within American English varies. Southern American English and American English regional vocabulary are American English.
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Anglo-Frisian languages
The Anglo-Frisian languages are the Anglic (English, Scots, Fingallian†, and Yola†) and Frisian (North Frisian, East Frisian, and West Frisian) varieties of the West Germanic languages.
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Appalachia
Appalachia is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.
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Appalachian English
Appalachian English is American English native to the Appalachian mountain region of the Eastern United States. Southern American English and Appalachian English are American English.
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Arkansas
Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.
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Armadillidiidae
Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb (abbreviated) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc.
See Southern American English and Auxiliary verb
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Bless your heart
"Bless your heart" is a phrase common to the Southern United States.
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British Isles
The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.
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Cajun English
Cajun English, or Cajun Vernacular English, is a dialect of American English spoken by Cajuns living in Southern Louisiana. Southern American English and Cajun English are American English.
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Cajuns
The Cajuns (French: les Cadjins or les Cadiens), also known as Louisiana Acadians (French: les Acadiens), are a Louisiana French ethnicity mainly found in the U.S. state of Louisiana and surrounding Gulf Coast states. Southern American English and Cajuns are culture of the Southern United States.
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Canadian raising
Canadian raising (also sometimes known as English diphthong raising) is an allophonic rule of phonology in many varieties of North American English that changes the pronunciation of diphthongs with open-vowel starting points. Southern American English and Canadian raising are vowel shifts.
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Chain shift
In historical linguistics, a chain shift is a set of sound changes in which the change in pronunciation of one speech sound (typically, a phoneme) is linked to, and presumably causes, a change in pronunciation of other sounds.
See Southern American English and Chain shift
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.
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Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States.
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 156430 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
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Code-switching
In linguistics, code-switching or language alternation occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation or situation.
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Coleslaw
Coleslaw (from the Dutch term koolsla meaning 'cabbage salad'), also known as cole slaw or simply as slaw, is a side dish consisting primarily of finely shredded raw cabbage with a salad dressing or condiment, commonly either vinaigrette or mayonnaise.
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Conservative and innovative language
In linguistics, a conservative form, variety, or feature of a language is one that has changed relatively little across the language's history, or which is relatively resistant to change.
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Contraction (grammar)
A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.
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Cot–caught merger
The cot–caught merger, also known as the merger or low back merger, is a sound change present in some dialects of English where speakers do not distinguish the vowel phonemes in words like cot versus caught.
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Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest. Southern American English and country music are culture of the Southern United States.
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Crayfish
Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Astacidea, which also contains lobsters.
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Creole language
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people.
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Delaware
Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.
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Demonstrative
Demonstratives (abbreviated) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others.
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Deontology
In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek: +) is the normative ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules and principles, rather than based on the consequences of the action.
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Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
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Diphthong
A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.
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Domino effect
A domino effect is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a series of similar or related events, a form of chain reaction.
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Double negative
A double negative is a construction occurring when two forms of grammatical negation are used in the same sentence.
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Drawl
A drawl is a perceived feature of some varieties of spoken English and generally indicates slower, longer vowel sounds and diphthongs.
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
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Early Modern English
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModEFor example, or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
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Edward II (play)
The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer, known as Edward II, is a Renaissance or early modern period play written by Christopher Marlowe.
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English alphabet
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms.
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English Americans
English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English modal auxiliary verbs
The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality (properties such as possibility and obligation).
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English-language vowel changes before historic /l/
In the history of English phonology, there have been many diachronic sound changes affecting vowels, especially involving phonemic splits and mergers. Southern American English and English-language vowel changes before historic /l/ are American English.
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English-language vowel changes before historic /r/
In English, many vowel shifts affect only vowels followed by in rhotic dialects, or vowels that were historically followed by that has been elided in non-rhotic dialects.
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Epistemology
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge.
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Evidentiality
In linguistics, evidentiality is, broadly, the indication of the nature of evidence for a given statement; that is, whether evidence exists for the statement and if so, what kind.
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Eye dialect
Eye dialect is a writer's use of deliberately nonstandard spelling either because they do not consider the standard spelling a good reflection of the pronunciation or because they are intending to portray informal or low-status language usage.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Free people of color
In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.
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Fronting (sound change)
In phonology, fronting is a sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes fronted, advanced or pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point. Southern American English and fronting (sound change) are vowel shifts.
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Garden District, New Orleans
The Garden District is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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General American English
General American English, known in linguistics simply as General American (abbreviated GA or GenAm), is the umbrella accent of American English spoken by a majority of Americans, encompassing a continuum rather than a single unified accent. Southern American English and General American English are American English.
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George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Germanic languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.
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Goose bumps
Goose bumps, goosebumps or goose-pimples (also called chill bumps) are the bumps on a person's skin at the base of body hairs which may involuntarily develop when a person is tickled, cold or experiencing strong emotions such as fear, euphoria or sexual arousal.
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Grammatical modifier
In linguistics, a modifier is an optional element in phrase structure or clause structure which modifies the meaning of another element in the structure.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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High Tider
High Tider, Hoi Toider, or Hoi Toide English is a family or continuum of American English dialects spoken in very limited communities of the South Atlantic United States, particularly several small islands and coastal townships.
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Hillbilly
Hillbilly is a term for people who dwell in rural, mountainous areas in the United States, primarily in the Appalachian region and Ozarks.
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Homophone
A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to a varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.
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Houston
Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.
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Icing (food)
Icing, or frosting, is a sweet, often creamy glaze made of sugar with a liquid, such as water or milk, that is often enriched with ingredients like butter, egg whites, cream cheese, or flavorings.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Indiana
Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Infinitive
Infinitive (abbreviated) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs.
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Jacksonville metropolitan area
The Jacksonville Metropolitan Area, also called the First Coast, Metro Jacksonville, or Northeast Florida, is the metropolitan area centered on the principal city of Jacksonville, Florida and including the First Coast of North Florida.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
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Kansas
Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Knit cap
A knit cap is a piece of knitted headwear designed to provide warmth in cold weather.
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Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
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Louisiana
Louisiana (Louisiane; Luisiana; Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States.
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Louisiana Creole
Louisiana Creole is a French-based creole language spoken by fewer than 10,000 people, mostly in the US state of Louisiana. Southern American English and Louisiana Creole are African-American English.
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Louisiana French
Louisiana French (Louisiana French: français de la Louisiane; françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties of the French language spoken traditionally by French Louisianians in colonial Lower Louisiana.
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Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Lubbock County.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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Mass media
Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.
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Median strip
A median strip, central reservation, roadway median, or traffic median is the reserved area that separates opposing lanes of traffic on divided roadways such as divided highways, dual carriageways, freeways, and motorways.
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Mid central vowel
The mid central vowel (also known as schwa) is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
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Middle class
The middle class refers to a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status.
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Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
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Midland American English
Midland American English is a regional dialect or super-dialect of American English, geographically lying between the traditionally-defined Northern and Southern United States. Southern American English and Midland American English are American English.
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.
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Missouri
Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Modal verb
A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order, obligation, necessity, possibility or advice.
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Modern English
Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed by the 17th century.
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Monophthong
A monophthong is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at only beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.
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Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.
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Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
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Nasalization
In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth.
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NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, LLC (NASCAR) is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock car racing.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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New Orleans English
New Orleans English is American English native to the city of New Orleans and its metropolitan area. Southern American English and New Orleans English are American English.
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New Orleans metropolitan area
The New Orleans metropolitan area, designated the New Orleans–Metairie metropolitan statistical area by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, or simply Greater New Orleans (Grande Nouvelle-Orléans, Gran Nueva Orleans), is a metropolitan statistical area designated by the United States Census Bureau encompassing seven Louisiana parishes—the equivalent of counties in other U.S.
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New York accent
The sound system of New York City English is popularly known as a New York accent.
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Niger–Congo languages
Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa.
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North American English
North American English is the most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in the United States and Canada.
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North American English regional phonology
North American English regional phonology is the study of variations in the pronunciation of spoken North American English (English of the United States and Canada)—what are commonly known simply as "regional accents". Southern American English and North American English regional phonology are American English.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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North Sea Germanic
North Sea Germanic, also known as Ingvaeonic, is a postulated grouping of the northern West Germanic languages that consists of Old Frisian, Old English, and Old Saxon, and their descendants.
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Northern American English
Northern American English or Northern U.S. English (also, Northern AmE) is a class of historically related American English dialects, spoken by predominantly white Americans, in much of the Great Lakes region and some of the Northeast region within the United States. Southern American English and Northern American English are American English.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States.
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Odessa, Texas
Odessa is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Ector County with portions extending into Midland County.
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Ohio
Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Older Southern American English
Older Southern American English is a diverse set of American English dialects of the Southern United States spoken most widely up until the American Civil War of the 1860s, before gradually transforming among its White speakers, first, by the turn of the 20th century, and, again, following the Great Depression, World War II, and, finally, the Civil Rights Movement. Southern American English and Older Southern American English are African-American English, American English and culture of the Southern United States.
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Outer Banks
The Outer Banks (frequently abbreviated OBX) are a string of barrier islands and spits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
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Participle
In linguistics, a participle (abbr.) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics and functions of both verbs and adjectives.
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Past tense
The past tense is a grammatical tense whose function is to place an action or situation in the past.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
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Perfect (grammar)
The perfect tense or aspect (abbreviated or) is a verb form that indicates that an action or circumstance occurred earlier than the time under consideration, often focusing attention on the resulting state rather than on the occurrence itself.
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Phoneme
In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.
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Phonological history of English close front vowels
The close and mid-height front vowels of English (vowels of i and e type) have undergone a variety of changes over time and often vary by dialect.
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Phonological history of English consonant clusters
The phonological history of English includes various changes in the phonology of consonant clusters.
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Phonological history of English diphthongs
English diphthongs have undergone many changes since the Old and Middle English periods.
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Piney Woods
The Piney Woods is a temperate coniferous forest terrestrial ecoregion in the Southern United States covering of East Texas, southern Arkansas, western Louisiana, and southeastern Oklahoma.
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Plantation complexes in the Southern United States
Plantation complexes were common on agricultural plantations in the Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century.
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Po' boy
A po' boy (also po-boy, po boy derived from the non-rhotic southern accents often heard in the region, or poor boy) is a sandwich originally from Louisiana.
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Porch
A porch (from Old French porche, from Latin porticus "colonnade", from porta "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building.
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Postvocalic consonant
In phonetics and phonology, a postvocalic consonant is a consonant that occurs after a vowel.
See Southern American English and Postvocalic consonant
Potato
The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.
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Preterite
The preterite or preterit (abbreviated or) is a grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past; in some languages, such as Spanish, French, and English, it is equivalent to the simple past tense.
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Pronunciation of English ⟨wh⟩
The pronunciation of the wh in English has changed over time, and still varies today between different regions and accents.
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R-colored vowel
An r-colored or rhotic vowel (also called a retroflex vowel, vocalic r, or a rhotacized vowel) is a vowel that is modified in a way that results in a lowering in frequency of the third formant.
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Racial segregation in the United States
Facilities and services such as housing, healthcare, education, employment, and transportation have been systematically separated in the United States based on racial categorizations.
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County.
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Redneck
Redneck is a derogatory term mainly, but not exclusively, applied to white Americans perceived to be crass and unsophisticated, closely associated with rural whites of the Southern United States.
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Refuge island
A refuge island, also known as a pedestrian refuge or pedestrian island, is a small section of pavement or sidewalk, surrounded by asphalt or other road materials, where pedestrians can stop before finishing crossing a road.
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Rhoticity in English
The distinction between rhoticity and non-rhoticity is one of the most prominent ways in which varieties of the English language are classified.
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Rural area
In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.
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San Antonio
San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.
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Savannah, Georgia
Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County.
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Scotch-Irish Americans
Scotch-Irish Americans (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of primarily Ulster Scots people who emigrated from Ulster (Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Semivowel
In phonetics and phonology, a semivowel, glide or semiconsonant is a sound that is phonetically similar to a vowel sound but functions as the syllable boundary, rather than as the nucleus of a syllable.
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Shopping cart
A shopping cart (American English), trolley (British English, Australian English), or buggy (Southern American English, Appalachian English), also known by a variety of other names, is a wheeled cart supplied by a shop or store, especially supermarkets, for use by customers inside the premises for transport of merchandise as they move around the premises, while shopping, prior to heading to the checkout counter, cashiers or tills.
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Simple past
The simple past, past simple, or past indefinite, in English equivalent to the preterite, is the basic form of the past tense in Modern English.
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Slavery in the United States
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.
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Social group
In the social sciences, a social group is defined as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity.
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Social status
Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess.
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Social stigma
Social stigma is the disapproval of, or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceived characteristics that serve to distinguish them from other members of a society.
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Soft drink
A soft drink (see § Terminology for other names) is any water-based flavored drink, usually but not necessarily carbonated, and typically including added sweetener.
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South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.
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South Carolina Lowcountry
The Lowcountry (sometimes Low Country or just low country) is a geographic and cultural region along South Carolina's coast, including the Sea Islands.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Southern United States literature
Southern United States literature consists of American literature written about the Southern United States or by writers from the region. Southern American English and Southern United States literature are culture of the Southern United States.
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Springfield metropolitan area, Missouri
The Springfield, Missouri, metropolitan area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in southwestern Missouri, anchored by the city of Springfield, the state's third largest city.
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Standard English
In an English-speaking country, Standard English (SE) is the variety of English that has undergone codification to the point of being socially perceived as the standard language, associated with formal schooling, language assessment, and official print publications, such as public service announcements and newspapers of record, etc.
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Sunshower
A sunshower, or sun shower, is a meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the sun is shining.
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Synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language.
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Syntax
In linguistics, syntax is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences.
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Tennessee
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Tenseness
In phonology, tenseness or tensing is, most broadly, the pronunciation of a sound with greater muscular effort or constriction than is typical.
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Texan English
Texan English is the array of American English dialects spoken in Texas, primarily falling under Southern U.S. English. Southern American English and Texan English are American English.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
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The Atlas of North American English
The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change (abbreviated ANAE; formerly, the Phonological Atlas of North America) is a 2006 book that presents an overview of the pronunciation patterns (accents) in all the major dialect regions of the English language as spoken in urban areas of the United States and Canada.
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Toilet papering
Toilet papering (also called TP-ing, house wrapping, yard rolling, or simply rolling) is the act of covering an object, such as a tree, house, or another structure with toilet paper.
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Trap–bath split
The – split is a vowel split that occurs mainly in Southern England English (including Received Pronunciation), Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English, South African English and to a lesser extent in some Welsh English as well as older Northeastern New England English by which the Early Modern English phoneme was lengthened in certain environments and ultimately merged with the long of PALM.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.
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United States Department of Energy
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.
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Upper class
Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society, and wield the greatest political power.
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Verb
A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
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Verb phrase
In linguistics, a verb phrase (VP) is a syntactic unit composed of a verb and its arguments except the subject of an independent clause or coordinate clause.
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Vernacular
Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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Vowel hiatus
In phonology, hiatus or diaeresis (also spelled dieresis or diæresis) describes the occurrence of two separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables with no intervening consonant.
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West Germanic languages
The West Germanic languages constitute the largest of the three branches of the Germanic family of languages (the others being the North Germanic and the extinct East Germanic languages).
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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White Southerners
White Southerners, are White Americans from the Southern United States, originating from the various waves of Northwestern European immigration to the region beginning in the 17th century. Southern American English and White Southerners are culture of the Southern United States.
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William Labov
William Labov (born December 4, 1927) is an American linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics.
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Word order
In linguistics, word order (also known as linear order) is the order of the syntactic constituents of a language.
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Working class
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Y'all
Y'all (pronounced) is a contraction of you and all, sometimes combined as you-all. Southern American English and Y'all are American English.
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See also
African-American English
- African-American English
- African-American Vernacular English
- African-American Vernacular English and social context
- Ebonics (word)
- Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks
- Habitual be
- Jive talk
- Kanawha County Textbook War
- Louisiana Creole
- Older Southern American English
- Pound Cake speech
- Rest in power
- Samaná English
- Southern American English
- Thug Notes
- Woke
Vowel shifts
- California English
- Canaanite shift
- Canadian raising
- Compensatory lengthening
- Fronting (sound change)
- Germanic a-mutation
- Germanic umlaut
- Great Vowel Shift
- I-mutation
- Iotacism
- Low-Back-Merger Shift
- Monophthongization
- Palatalization (sound change)
- Phonological history of English vowels
- Quantitative metathesis
- Raising (sound change)
- Scottish vowel length rule
- Southern American English
- Synizesis
- Trisyllabic laxing
- Vowel breaking
- Vowel shift
References
Also known as American Southern English, Dixie English, Dixie accent, Okie Dialect, Oklahoma dialect, SWVE, Southern American, Southern American English language, Southern American accent, Southern American dialect, Southern English (American), Southern U.S. accent, Southern US English, Southern United States English, Southern United States accent, Southern United States slang, Southern Vowel Shift, Southern White Vernacular English, Southern dialect of America, Southern expression, Southern united states dialect.