Canadian raising (English, noun)
expansion: Canadian raising (countable and uncountable, plural Canadian raisings)
Senses:
topics: dialectology
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The phenomenon in some dialects of English, especially Canadian English, in which /aɪ/ is realized as [ʌɪ] and/or /aʊ/ is realized as [ʌʊ] or [ɛʊ] before underlying unvoiced consonants.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: dialectology
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A similar but more restricted phenomenon, found in most dialects of American English, that applies only to /aɪ/, which is realized as [ʌɪ] in certain contexts, especially before underlying unvoiced consonants but with significant speaker-to-speaker variation.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: Canadian raisings
tags: plural