Standard Canadian English | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Standard Canadian English


00:01:01 1 Phonemic incidence
00:04:41 2 Features shared with General American
00:06:47 3 Canadian raising
00:09:42 4 The cot–caught merger and the Canadian Shift
00:11:54 5 Other common features



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Standard Canadian English is the greatly homogeneous variety of Canadian English spoken particularly all across central and western Canada, as well as throughout Canada among urban middle-class speakers from English-speaking families, excluding the regional dialects of Atlantic Canadian English. English mostly has a uniform phonology and very little diversity of dialects in Canada compared with the neighbouring English of the United States. The Standard Canadian English dialect region is defined by the cot–caught merger to [ɑ] (listen)~[ɒ] (listen) and an accompanying chain shift of vowel sounds, called the Canadian Shift. A subset of this dialect geographically at its central core, excluding British Columbia to the west and everything east of Montreal, has been called Inland Canadian English, and is further defined by both of the phenomena known as "Canadian raising", the production of /oʊ/ and /aʊ/ with back starting points in the mouth, and the production of /eɪ/ with a front starting point and very little glide (almost [e]).