| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| METROPOLITAN NEW YORK CITY REGIONAL DIALECT |
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is the subdialect of Northern dialect spoken in New York City, Northern New Jersey, Long Island, and along the Connecticut shore as far east as New Haven. It is characterized by loss of r sounds before consonants (PAHT for part), as well as by other Hudson Valley sounds, and it also has some “foreignisms” such as the glottal stop in bottle (wherein instead of a t sound with the tip of the tongue, the air column is cut off by the soft palate; the IPA symbol is [ ]) and the hard g sound following nasals that makes singer rhyme with finger instead of with ringer, as in most other U.S. dialects. This is perhaps the only American English dialect whose Standard, cultivated form seems to lack prestige even among some of its own speakers. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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