Dialexicon: map of US accents by county

[Damien Hall]

On Dec 19 2009, Herb Stahlke wrote:

[...]

>"cheese" isn't a bad choice.  It will show whether the speaker has the
>Southern Vowel Shift, which centralizes the onset of mid and high
>vowels.  In such varieties of Southern, "cheese" would be /tS at i:z/

Thanks. I did think that if /i/ would show anything it might be about the
South, but my memory of the Southern Vowel Shift's effect on non-low vowels
extended only to its moving /E/ up and /e/ down, I'm afraid. You've
refreshed my memory, but I should have looked it up!

Damien

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