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В· The merger of /?/and /?/<# "justify"> Some mergers found in most varieties of both American and British English include:
В· The merger <# "justify"> 3. Eastern American english
C.G.Van Riper and D.E. Smith wrote in 1962: It is difficult to generalize about Eastern American English, since within the region where it is spoken there are many differing pronunciations.Eastern American pronunciation is typified as an r-less , or non-rhotic, type of American English pronunciation. Consequently, it is characterized by the loss of [?] In the final and preconsonantal positions, as in car [ka:] and park [pa: k]. EA speakers use [ з :] and [?] Instead of the GA [?] And [?] In such words as bird, sister. One of the most striking features of EA, or more precisely, of Eastern New England is, perhaps, the use of the broad [a], in far, park, father ... In contrast to GA Eastern American speakers use the RP [?] In so-called short-o words, as in hot, crop, not, dog, in which places GA speakers use [?]. In contrast to RP [?] is also used in such words as caught, fought, law, horse. The word cot and caught come to the identical - [k? T] .
The frequent vowel in doll and solve is [?], though [?] and [?] can also occur.
In forest, orange, horrid, tomorrow [?] predominates. However, [?] Varies with [?], Especially before the velar consonants [?] And [?] As in fog, long. p align="justify"> [?] is normal in burry, worry, courage .
The diphtongs [a?], [??], [a?] are relatively stable, though some traces of [a?] and [ Г¦ ?] remain in rural areas.
Absorb, absurd, and desolate may have either [s] or [z], greasy and the verb greasy have [s].
4. Southern American english
the speech of the South there are subareas and gradations of social status, as reflected in speech, to be found nowhere else in the country. Generally speaking, SA has unique differences in the manner of articulation. Southerners lengthen certain vowels, they make the single vowels (monophthongs) into diphthongs and triphthongs. The articulation is more lax and unprecise and it is this rather than the rate, or speed, of speech which characterizes the southern drawl . Few generalizations can be made about Southern pronunciation as there is great variation between the regions of the South, between older and younger people, and between people of different ethnic backgrounds.following features ...
