Evolution of the Merger of /I/ and /e/ before Nasals in Tennessee

1991/01/01 by Vivian R. Brown · 84 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #History #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Phonetics and Phonology Research

paper · doi:10.2307/455802

published in American Speech 66(3), 303 (Duke University Press)

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Citations

• The Divergence Controversy
• North Carolina accents
• The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic states: Based upon the collections of the Linguistic Atlas of the Eastern United States. By Hans Kurath and Raven I. McDavid Jr. (Studies in American English, No. 3.) Pp. xi, 182, with 180 full-page maps. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1961.

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• Phonological history of English close front vowels [wikipedia]