New York-New Jersey English - Article Index

Encyclopedia - New York-new Jersey English: Encyclopedia Ii - New York-new Jersey English - Linguistic Features
New York-New Jersey English - Pronunciation. See the article International Phonetic Alphabet for explanations of the phonetic symbols u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regional Vocabularies Of American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Regional Vocabularies Of American English - Regional Vocabulary Tables
See: Chinook Jargon was a trade language (or pidgin) of the Pacific Northwest, which spread quickly up the West Coast from Oregon State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants
Phonological history of English consonants - H-cluster reductions. Glide cluster reductions The wine-whine merger is a merger by whic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia - Southern United States
The Southern United States or the South constitutes a distinctive region covering a large portion of the United States. Due to the region...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Consonants - Elimination Of Velar Fricatives In English
Phonological history of English consonants - Taut-taught merger. The taut-taught merger is a process that occurs in most dialects of En...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Overview Of The Southern Dialect
The overall Southern dialect generally follows the borders of the Confederate states that seceded from the United States during the Ameri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - History
While Southern history stretches back to prehistoric times, the unique culture of the South primarily has its origins with the settlement...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of The Low Back Vowels: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of The Low Back Vowels - Cot-caught Merger
In linguistics, the cot-caught merger (also known as the low back merger) is a phonemic merger, a sound change, that occurs in some varie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - South
Main article: Southern American English monophthongization of [aɪ] as [aː], for example, most dialects' "I" → "Ah" in the South. Coa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boston Accent: Encyclopedia Ii - Boston Accent - Phonological Characteristics
All phonetic transcriptions in the IPA; for example: how are you? [hoˈwaːjə] Boston accent - Non-rhoticity. The traditional Boston...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Classification
Note that divisions between subfamilies of Germanic are rarely precisely defined; most form continuous clines, with adjacent dialects bei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of The Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of The Southern United States - People
The people of the South, or Southerners, are primarily the descendants of the Celtic immigrants who moved to the South in the 17th and 18...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English-language Vowel Changes Before Historic R: Encyclopedia Ii - English-language Vowel Changes Before Historic R - Mergers Before Historic Coda R
English-language vowel changes before historic r - Near-square merger. The near-square merger is the merger of the Early Modern English...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - General American: Encyclopedia Ii - General American - Phonology
General American - Consonants. A table containing the consonant phonemes is given below The phoneme /ʍ/ is present only in varieties t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Overview Of The Southern Dialect
The overall Southern dialect generally includes the Confederate states that seceded from the United States during the American Civil War,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Culture
Southern culture has been and remains generally more socially conservative than that of the north. Due to the central role of agriculture...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Race Relations
African Americans have a long history in the South, stretching back to the first settlements in the region. While some Blacks came to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Cultural Variations
There continues to be debate about what constitutes the basics elements of Southern culture.[6] This debate is influenced, in part, by th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Symbolism Of The South
The "Rebel Flag" of the Confederacy has become a highly contentious image throughout the USA. Although it and other reminders of the Old ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Midwest
American English regional differences - North Central American English. (Minnesota (esp. rural), Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Wisconsin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of The Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of The Southern United States - Southern Dialect
The Southern American English dialect is often stigmatized, as are other American English dialects such as New York-New Jersey English. H...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of The Low Back Vowels: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of The Low Back Vowels - Lot-cloth Split
The lot-cloth split is the result of a late seventeenth-century sound change that lengthened /ɒ/ to [ɒː] before voiceless fricatives, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Different Southern American English Dialects
In a sense, there is no one dialect called "Southern". Instead, there are a number of regional dialect found across the Southern United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of The Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of The Southern United States - Cuisine
As an important feature of Southern culture, the cuisine of the South is often described as one of its most distinctive traits. The varie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English-language Vowel Changes Before Historic R: Encyclopedia Ii - English-language Vowel Changes Before Historic R - Mergers Before Intervocalic R
English-language vowel changes before historic r - Mary-marry-merry merger. One of the best-known pre-rhotic mergers is known as the ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - The Midland
West of the Appalachian Mountains begins the broad zone of what is generally called "Midland" speech. This is divided into two discrete s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Vocabulary Comparison
Several of the terms in the table below have had semantic drift. For example, the form 'Sterben' and other terms for 'die' are cognate wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Politics
In the century after the American Civil War and Reconstruction, Southerners often identified with the then-conservative Democratic Party....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of The Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of The Southern United States - Sports
The South is known for its love of football. While the South has had a number of Super Bowl winning National Football League teams (such ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of The Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of The Southern United States - Literature
The South has a strong literary history. Characteristics of southern literature including a focus on a common southern history, the signi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Culture
Southern culture has been and remains generally more socially conservative than that of the north. Due to the central role of agriculture...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Geography
As defined by the Census Bureau, the Southern region of the United States includes 16 states, and is split into three smaller units, or d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Mid-atlantic Region
American English regional differences - Northeastern Pennsylvania. The dialect of the Wyoming Valley (including Scranton and Wilkes-Bar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - General American: Encyclopedia Ii - General American - Regional Home Of General American
The Telsur Project[1] of William Labov and others examines a number of phonetic properties by which regional accents of the U.S. may be i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Writing
Our earliest evidence of Germanic is from names, recorded in the 1st century by Tacitus, and in a single instance in the 2nd century BC, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Inland North
A distinctive speech pattern was also generated by the separation of Canada from the United States, centered on the Great Lakes region. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - Vocabulary Comparison
Several of the terms in the table below have had semantic drift. For example, the form 'Sterben' and other terms for 'die' are cognate wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Symbolism Of The South
The "Rebel Flag" of the Confederacy has become a highly contentious image throughout the USA. Although it and other reminders of the Old ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Race Relations
African Americans have a long history in the South, stretching back to the first settlements in the region. While some Blacks came to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Cultural Variations
There continues to be debate about what constitutes the basics elements of Southern culture.[6] This debate is influenced, in part, by th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Consonants - Consonant Cluster Reductions
Phonological history of English consonants - H-cluster reductions. Glide cluster reductions The wine-whine merger is a merger by whic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Germanic Languages: Encyclopedia Ii - Germanic Languages - History
All Germanic languages are thought to be descended from a hypothetical Proto-Germanic, united by their having been subjected to the sound...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern American English: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern American English - Different Southern American English Dialects
In a sense, there is no one dialect called "Southern." Instead, there are a number of regional dialect found across the Southern United S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Consonants - Phonological History Of Ng
Phonological history of English consonants - NG coalescence. NG coalescence (or the singer-finger split) is the name given to a sound c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - Eastern New England
The accents of eastern New England, including those of Boston (see Boston accent), New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Maine (also called Do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - New York City And Northern New Jersey
Main article: New York-New Jersey English As in Eastern New England, the accents of New York City and northern New Jersey are traditional...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Geography
As defined by the Census Bureau, the Southern region of the United States includes 16 states, and is split into three smaller units, or d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - American English Regional Differences: Encyclopedia Ii - American English Regional Differences - General American English
Written English is standardized across the U.S., and in schools abroad specializing in American English, although it differs slightly fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - Politics
In the century after the American Civil War and Reconstruction, Southerners often identified with the then-conservative Democratic Party....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Consonants - Elimination Of Dental Fricatives In English Dialects
Phonological history of English consonants - TH fronting. TH fronting is a merger that occurs (historically independently) in Cockney, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonological History Of English Consonants: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonological History Of English Consonants - H-dropping And H-adding
Phonological history of English consonants - H-dropping. H-dropping is a colloquial term used to describe the omission of initial /h/ i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Southern United States: Encyclopedia Ii - Southern United States - History
While Southern history stretches back to prehistoric times, the unique culture of the South primarily has its origins with the settlement...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New York-new Jersey English: Encyclopedia Ii - New York-new Jersey English - The Jersey Shore And Cape May Accent
The present accent of the Jersey Shore is heavily influenced by that of North Jersey, from which it was principally settled. However, pri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New York-new Jersey English: Encyclopedia Ii - New York-new Jersey English - The New Jersey Accent
Generally, the so-called Jersey accent or North Jersey accent spoken in northern New Jersey is somewhat closer to General American than t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New York-new Jersey English: Encyclopedia Ii - New York-new Jersey English - History
The origins of the dialect are diverse, and the source of many features is probably not recoverable. Labov has pointed out that the short...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New York-new Jersey English: Encyclopedia Ii - New York-new Jersey English - Macrosocial Extensions
The dialect is closely confined to the geographically small but densely populated New York City Dialect Region, which consists of the cit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New York-new Jersey English: Encyclopedia Ii - New York-new Jersey English - Subracial Ethnic Differentiation
Similarly, some speakers claim that there are differences among speakers of European American New York English that break down along ethn...   » Read the article