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单词 canadian raising
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Canadian raising
Canadian raising n. Phonetics a sound change in some varieties of North American English in which the first element of certain closing diphthongs is raised before voiceless consonants, as in the words mouth and price. Compare
U.S. //
,
//
with
Canadian English /ʌu/
,
/əi/
.The effects of Canadian raising are popularly and inaccurately represented in imitations and parodies of Canadian English in which a word such as about (which is affected by the raising) is pronounced as if spelt aboot.
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1973 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 18 114 The effect of Canadian Raising is to heighten the onset of diphthongs relative to the low-central onset which is heard in neighbouring dialects.
1989 Amer. Speech 64 84 There is no English source for Canadian Raising, or, at least, none is recoverable from orthoepy, philology, or dialect surveys.
2008 Lang. in Society 37 460 Canadian Raising..is neither found consistently within nor excluded consistently outside Canada's borders.
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