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A Boston accent is a local accent of Eastern New England English, native specifically to the city of Boston and its suburbs. Northeastern New England English is classified as traditionally including New Hampshire, Maine, and all of eastern Massachusetts, while some uniquely local vocabulary appears only around Boston.
The status of the cot–caught merger in Western New England is inconsistent, being complete in the north of this dialect region (Vermont), but incomplete or absent in the south (southern Connecticut), [5] with a "cot–caught approximation" in the middle area (primarily, western Massachusetts). [6]
New England English is, collectively, the various distinct dialects and varieties of American English originating in the New England area. [1] [2] Most of eastern and central New England once spoke the "Yankee dialect", some of whose accent features still remain in Eastern New England today, such as "R-dropping" (though this and other features are now receding among younger speakers). [3]
Speakers of non-rhotic accents, as in much of Australia, England, New Zealand, and Wales, will pronounce the second syllable [fəd], those with the father–bother merger, as in much of the US and Canada, will pronounce the first syllable [ˈɑːks], and those with the cot–caught merger but without the father–bother merger, as in Scotland ...
Conversely, the merger of the vowels is largely complete elsewhere in the United States. Full Canadian raising: The tongue is raised in the first element of the gliding vowel /aɪ/ ⓘ as well as /aʊ/ ⓘ whenever either appears before a voiceless consonant. [19] Therefore, a word like house /haʊs/ is often [hɜʊs~hɐʊs].
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