Second-dialect Acquisition in Southwestern Pennsylvania

This thesis presents an analysis of second-dialect acquisition of Pittsburgh English phonological features. Pittsburgh English is the dialect spoken in southwestern Pennsylvania. There are two phonological features unique to the dialect: (i) the [ɔ] realization of the low-back vowel merger and (ii)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sprowls, Lisa Marie
Other Authors: Dr. Leora Bar-el
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: The University of Montana 2014
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Online Access:http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06152014-133217/