Canada:PRICE and MOUTH Raising

Wells 3 6.2.4 p.495

PRICE and MOUTH Raising

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PRICE and MOUTH Raising

Simplification: this is what it often sounds like to us:

PRICE and MOUTH Raising

Which of the following words would show raising?

lighter hiking rising quite bridesgroom wire ripe shy ice eyes spy spies price prize

round about town crowd doubt shout sound

PRICE and MOUTH Raising

NB only when the following fortis occurs in same syllable, as with Fortis Clipping in RP:• “white elephant” but not “why telephone”• “a lout” but not “ allow to go”

Canadian Raising does not occur in some rural Newfoundland speech

PRICE and MOUTH Raisingwith T-Voicing

RP Canadian

Hi Petur,I'm not an expert by any means, but I know that we Canadians consider there to be some differences in the speech of people from different areas in Canada- although they are slight.

For example, the speaker in your first example (about the woman's first trip to Iceland) is from somewhere in Ontario : Ontarians and especially those from Toronto/Ottawa use a wider /æ/vowel in words like "can" or "and", and this sounds much more similar to General American than to the pronunciation of people from western Canada.

Also, there is an interesting dialect area in and south of Winnipeg, Manitoba which is considered to be related to the speech of German Mennonites who were historical settlers in the area. The speakers of Mennonite background in this area have a distinct lack of diphthonging in words like "know" and tend to have very closed, long /o/ vowels, including in words like "about".

I know that Canadians can hear the difference in the English of an aboriginal speaker, a speaker from the east coast, and someone from eastern Ontario.

Best regards,Melanie

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