Inland North American English

E125182

dialect regional variety of American English variety of North American English

Inland North American English is a major regional variety of American English spoken primarily around the Great Lakes region, characterized by features such as the Northern Cities Vowel Shift.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Inland North American English canonical	6
Inland North dialect region	1
North Central American English	1
North Central American English region	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	dialect ⓘ regional variety of American English ⓘ variety of North American English ⓘ
characterizedBy	Northern Cities Vowel Shift region English ⓘ surface form: Northern Cities Vowel Shift
contrastedWith	Canadian English ⓘ Mid-Atlantic English ⓘ surface form: Mid-Atlantic American English Southern American English ⓘ Western American English ⓘ
describedBy	Charles Boberg ⓘ Sharon Ash ⓘ William Labov ⓘ
documentedBy	Atlas of North American English ⓘ
hasLexicalFeature	use of "garage sale" rather than "yard sale" in many areas ⓘ use of "pop" for carbonated soft drink ⓘ use of "you guys" as second person plural pronoun ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	/r/ generally rhotic ⓘ /æ/ split into tense and lax allophones ⓘ contrast between /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ maintained ⓘ flapping of /t/ and /d/ between vowels ⓘ fronting of /ɑ/ ⓘ lowering and backing of /ɔ/ ⓘ monophthongal realization of /eɪ/ in some environments ⓘ monophthongal realization of /oʊ/ in some environments ⓘ raising of /æ/ ⓘ tensing of short vowels in closed syllables ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature	positive anymore in some speakers ⓘ
hasTrend	reversal or weakening of Northern Cities Vowel Shift among younger speakers in some areas ⓘ
partOf	Inland North dialect region ⓘ English dialect continuum ⓘ surface form: North American English dialect continuum
spokenIn	Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: Buffalo metropolitan area Chicago metropolitan area ⓘ Cleveland metropolitan area ⓘ Detroit metropolitan area ⓘ Great Lakes region ⓘ Inland North region ⓘ Michigan ⓘ northern Illinois ⓘ surface form: Northern Illinois Northern Indiana ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ surface form: Northern Midwest Northern Ohio ⓘ Rochester ⓘ surface form: Rochester, New York United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States Upstate New York (broad sense) ⓘ surface form: Upstate New York Wisconsin ⓘ
studiedIn	dialectology ⓘ sociolinguistics ⓘ
timePeriod	20th century ⓘ 21st century ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

North American English → includesDialect → Inland North American English ⓘ

Chicago English → associatedWith → Inland North American English ⓘ

this entity surface form: Inland North dialect region

Chicago English → influencedBy → Inland North American English ⓘ

Wisconsin English → influencedBy → Inland North American English ⓘ

this entity surface form: North Central American English

New Jersey English → regionallyContrastedWith → Inland North American English ⓘ

Utah English → regionallyContrastedWith → Inland North American English ⓘ

Inland North region → hasDialect → Inland North American English ⓘ

Inland North region → borderedByDialectRegion → Inland North American English ⓘ

this entity surface form: North Central American English region