Fw: Teenage speak and beyond

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 5/31/07, Gordon, Matthew J. <GordonMJ at missouri.edu> wrote:
>
> Both the lowering of /E/ and the backing of /ae/ are found in the =
> California Shift and the Canadian Shift. People inclined to believe in =
> chain shifting might chalk these movements up to the presence of the =
> low-back merger (cot=3Dcaught) in both these regions. But, feel free to =
> ignore such structuralist explanations and continue psychoanalyzing.
>
> Self-promotion: http://www.pbs.org/speak/ahead/change/changin/

Also worth checking out -- Penny Eckert's page on the California Shift:

http://www.stanford.edu/~eckert/vowels.html


--Ben Zimmer

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