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Midwestern or Upper Northern dialects or accents of American English are any of those associated with the Midwestern region of the United States, and they include: . General American English, the most widely perceived "mainstream" American English accent, sometimes considered "Midwestern" in character, particularly prior to the Northern Cities Vowel Shift.
For example, /æ/ may be generally raised and /ɑ/ generally fronted in comparison to other American English accents. [9] Some speakers exhibit extreme raising of /æ/ before voiced velars (/ɡ/ and /ŋ/), with an up-glide, and so bag sounds close to beg or is even raised like the first syllable of bagel. Other examples are the words flag and ...
Susan Hawk – "a Midwestern truck driver whose accent and etiquette epitomized the stereotype of the tacky, abrasive, working-class character" [60] Mike Krzyzewski – "his nasal voice ... his flat, familiar Chicago accent" [61] Dennis Kucinich – "a shining example of Cleveland's version of the Inland North accent" [62]
English-language scholar William A. Kretzschmar Jr. explains in a 2004 article that the term "General American" came to refer to "a presumed most common or 'default' form of American English, especially to be distinguished from marked regional speech of New England or the South" and referring especially to speech associated with the vaguely-defined "Midwest", despite any historical or present ...
FX’s Emmy-winning anthology returns for Season 5 this Tuesday at 10/9c, and TVLine got a chance to talk with the cast about how they developed the distinctive Fargo accent.
Regional dialects in North America are historically the most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard, due to distinctive speech patterns of urban centers of the American East Coast like Boston, New York City, and certain Southern cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger ...
This 20th-century St. Louis accent's separating quality from the rest of the Midland is its strong resistance to the cot–caught merger and the most advanced development of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift (NCS). [41] In the 20th century, Greater St. Louis therefore became a mix of Midland accents and Inland Northern (Chicago-like) accents.
FX’s Emmy-winning anthology returns for Season 5 this Tuesday at 10/9c, and TVLine got a chance to talk with the cast about how they developed the distinctive Fargo accent. In the video above ...