1957/03/01 by Robert J. Gregg · 1 voice · 6 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Canadian Identity and History #Historical Linguistics and Language Studies #Linguistic Variation and Morphology
paper · doi:10.1017/s000841310002483x
openalex publication_date 1957/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
1. In the studies of Canadian English which have appeared up to date, emphasis has largely been placed been on the social-historical factors which account for the distribution of different groups of English-speaking settlers. This work, of course, provides an indispensable basis for further linguistic investigations, and equally useful are the lexical distributions that have been studied. In the phonological field, however, there is an urgent need for more material based on first-hand phonetic observation. 2. The present article sets out to analyse phonetically the English spoken in the Vancouver area, specifically among the younger generation. Some fifty local students, ranging in age from sixteen to twenty-two, have co-operated in this exploratory analysis during the last two years, and the detailed investigation of their speech has been supplemented and checked by further investigation outside the group.