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Canadian English and Regional accents of English

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Difference between Canadian English and Regional accents of English

Canadian English vs. Regional accents of English

Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Canada. Spoken English shows great variation across regions where it is the predominant language.

Similarities between Canadian English and Regional accents of English

Canadian English and Regional accents of English have 19 things in common (in Unionpedia): American English, Australian English, British English, Canadian raising, Canadian Shift, Cot–caught merger, Dental and alveolar flaps, Dialect, Diphthong, English-language vowel changes before historic /r/, First language, Flapping, Hiberno-English, Ireland, Phonology, Pronunciation, Rhoticity in English, Scottish English, Wales.

American English

American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), 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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Australian English

Australian English (AuE, en-AU) is a major variety of the English language, used throughout Australia.

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British English

British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.

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Canadian raising

Canadian raising is an allophonic rule of phonology in many dialects of North American English that changes the pronunciation of diphthongs with open-vowel starting points.

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Canadian Shift

The Canadian Shift is a chain shift of vowel sounds found primarily in Canadian English, but also possibly in some other dialects (for example, younger Pacific Northwest English).

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Cot–caught merger

The cot–caught merger (also known as the low back merger or the merger) is a phonemic merger that has taken place in some varieties of English, between the phonemes which are conventionally represented in the IPA as (which is usually written with au, aw, al or ough as in caught and thought) and (which is usually written with o as in cot and lot).

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Dental and alveolar flaps

The alveolar tap or flap is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word,, "discourse", from,, "through" and,, "I speak") is used in two distinct ways to refer to two different types of linguistic phenomena.

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Diphthong

A diphthong (or; from Greek: δίφθογγος, diphthongos, literally "two sounds" or "two tones"), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.

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English-language vowel changes before historic /r/

In English, many vowel shifts only affect vowels followed by in rhotic dialects, or vowels that were historically followed by an that has since been elided in non-rhotic dialects.

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First language

A first language, native language or mother/father/parent tongue (also known as arterial language or L1) is a language that a person has been exposed to from birth or within the critical period.

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Flapping

Flapping or tapping, also known as alveolar flapping, intervocalic flapping, or t-voicing, is a phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially North American English, Australian English and New Zealand English, by which the consonants and sometimes also may be pronounced as a voiced flap in certain positions, particularly between vowels (intervocalic position).

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Hiberno-English

Hiberno‐English (from Latin Hibernia: "Ireland") or Irish English is the set of English dialects natively written and spoken within the island of Ireland (including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.

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Phonology

Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages.

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Pronunciation

Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken.

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Rhoticity in English

Rhoticity in English refers to English speakers' pronunciation of the historical rhotic consonant, and is one of the most prominent distinctions by which varieties of English can be classified.

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Scottish English

Scottish English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Scotland.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Canadian English and Regional accents of English Comparison

Canadian English has 380 relations, while Regional accents of English has 222. As they have in common 19, the Jaccard index is 3.16% = 19 / (380 + 222).

References

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