Midwestern American English
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Midwestern American English is a major regional dialect of American English often associated with a relatively neutral or "standard" U.S. accent used in national media and broadcasting.
Aliases (7)
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
regional dialect of American English
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variety of English → |
| associatedWith |
General American English
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| characterizedBy |
/oʊ/ monophthongization tendencies in some Midland areas
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/u/ fronting in many speakers → Northern Cities Vowel Shift in some northern urban areas → T-flapping between vowels (e.g., ladder vs. latter merger in pronunciation) → alveolar realization of /ŋ/ in -ing for some informal speech → distinctive short-a system in Inland North subvariety → lack of non-rhoticity typical of some East Coast dialects → relatively flat intonation compared to some other U.S. dialects → relatively merged cot–caught vowels in many areas → rhotic pronunciation → yod-dropping in words like news and student for many speakers → |
| hasPerception |
often considered close to Standard American English
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often used as model accent for U.S. broadcasters → |
| hasSubvariety |
Chicago English
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Inland North American English → Midland American English → Minnesotan English → North Central American English → Northern Cities Vowel Shift region English → St. Louis English → Upper Midwestern English → Wisconsin English → |
| languageFamily |
Anglic languages
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Germanic languages → Indo-European languages → West Germanic languages → |
| lexicalFeature |
use of garage sale or yard sale for household sales
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use of kitty-corner or catty-corner for diagonally across → use of pop for carbonated soft drink in many northern areas → use of soda in some Midwestern subregions → use of you guys as second-person plural pronoun → use of yous or youse in some urban Midwestern communities → |
| notableInCity |
Chicago
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Cleveland → Detroit → Indianapolis → Kansas City → Milwaukee → Minneapolis–Saint Paul → St. Louis → |
| partOf |
American English
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| perceivedAs |
relatively neutral American accent
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| spokenIn |
Midwestern United States
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United States → |
| studiedInField |
dialectology
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sociolinguistics → |
| usedIn |
broadcasting in the United States
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national media in the United States → |
Referenced by (11)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Midwestern American English
("Inland North American English")
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Midwestern American English ("Midland American English") → Midwestern American English ("St. Louis English") → Midwestern American English ("Minnesotan English") → |
hasSubvariety |
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American English
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American English ("Inland North American English") → |
hasVariant |
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Canadian English
("General American English")
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closelyRelatedTo |
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Western American English
("Inland North American English")
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contrastedWith |
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BBC English
("General American accent")
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distinctFrom |
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Wisconsin English
("Midwestern English")
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influencedBy |
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Chicano English
("General American English")
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isMutuallyIntelligibleWith |