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The starting point, or first stage, of the Southern Shift, is the transition of the diphthong /aɪ/ (listen ⓘ) toward a "glideless" long vowel [aː] (listen ⓘ), so that, for example, the word ride commonly approaches a sound that most other American English speakers would hear as rod or rad.
Similar to the Cork accent but without the same intonation, Kerry puts even heavier emphasis on the "brrr" sound to the letter "R.", for example, the word "forty". Throughout the south, this word is pronounced whereby the "r" exhibits the typified Irish "brrr".
One such example accent feature is the "r-dropping" (or non-rhoticity) of the late 18th and early 19th century, resulting in the similar r-dropping found in these American areas during the cultural "Old South". Contrarily, in Southern areas away from the major coasts and plantations (like Appalachia), on certain isolated islands, and variously ...
One phenomenon apparently unique to North American U.S. accents is the irregular behavior of words that in the British English standard, Received Pronunciation, have /ɒrV/ (where V stands for any vowel). Words of this class include, among others: origin, Florida, horrible, quarrel, warren, borrow, tomorrow, sorry, and sorrow.
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Word-final devoicing of /b/, /d/, and /ɡ/, whereby, for example, cub sounds similar to cup, [41] though these words may retain the longer vowel pronunciations that typically precede voiced consonants, and devoicing may be realized with debuccalization (where /d/ is realized as [.], for instance) [42] [43]
A Mid-Atlantic accent is any of various accents of English that are perceived as blending features from both American and British English. [1] [2] In American popular culture, the informal label of Mid-Atlantic accent, [3] [4] [5] or Transatlantic accent, [6] [2] [7] usually refers to certain non-rhotic speech taught and promoted in early 20th-century American schools of acting, voice, and ...
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.