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9. Same PRICE, Different HOUSEEnglish Diphthong Raising in Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia

9. Same PRICE, Different HOUSEEnglish Diphthong Raising in Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver,... Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/pads/article-pdf/106/1/204/1482385/1060204.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 02 April 2022 9. SAME PRICE, DIFFERENT HOUSE: ENGLISH DIPHTHONG RAISING IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, AND VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA JULIA THOMAS SWAN North american dialectology has traditionally divided Canada from the United States with an isogloss that parallels the national border as it extends west from Ontario and Minnesota to the Pacific. Labov, Ash, and Boberg (2006) motivate this boundary by citing the presence of the Cana- dian Vowel Shift and Canadian Raising of /aU/ and /aI/ in western Canada, both of which are absent or not reliably present in the U.S. West. Subse- quent research has documented the structurally motivated progression of the Low-Back-Merger Shift across Canada as well as the western and mid- western United States with striking consistency on both sides of the national border (Becker 2019; Boberg 2019; Swan 2019). In light of this research, the dialect distinction between western Canada and the western United States now rests squarely on the so-called Canadian Raising of /aU/ and /aI/, defined by Labov, Ash, and Boberg (2006) in The Atlas of North American Eng- lish (ANAE ) as a contextual difference between prevoiceless and prevoiced tokens of more than 60 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Publication of the American Dialect Society Duke University Press

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0002-8207
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2157-6114
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10.1215/00031283-9551358
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/pads/article-pdf/106/1/204/1482385/1060204.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 02 April 2022 9. SAME PRICE, DIFFERENT HOUSE: ENGLISH DIPHTHONG RAISING IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, AND VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA JULIA THOMAS SWAN North american dialectology has traditionally divided Canada from the United States with an isogloss that parallels the national border as it extends west from Ontario and Minnesota to the Pacific. Labov, Ash, and Boberg (2006) motivate this boundary by citing the presence of the Cana- dian Vowel Shift and Canadian Raising of /aU/ and /aI/ in western Canada, both of which are absent or not reliably present in the U.S. West. Subse- quent research has documented the structurally motivated progression of the Low-Back-Merger Shift across Canada as well as the western and mid- western United States with striking consistency on both sides of the national border (Becker 2019; Boberg 2019; Swan 2019). In light of this research, the dialect distinction between western Canada and the western United States now rests squarely on the so-called Canadian Raising of /aU/ and /aI/, defined by Labov, Ash, and Boberg (2006) in The Atlas of North American Eng- lish (ANAE ) as a contextual difference between prevoiceless and prevoiced tokens of more than 60

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Published: Dec 1, 2021

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