Utah English
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Utah English is a regional variety of American English spoken in Utah, characterized by distinctive vowel pronunciations, lexical choices, and influences from Western U.S. and Mormon cultural speech patterns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Utah English canonical | 1 |
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
regional dialect of American English
ⓘ
variety of English ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Intermountain West
ⓘ
Latter-day Saint culture ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
distinctive lexical choices
ⓘ
distinctive vowel pronunciations ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Utah Mormon culture
ⓘ
Western U.S. culture ⓘ |
| hasLexicalItem |
"Mormon standard time" as a humorous expression for habitual lateness
ⓘ
"Utahn" as a demonym for a person from Utah ⓘ "sluff" meaning to skip class ⓘ "stake" in an LDS administrative sense ⓘ "ward" in an LDS congregational sense ⓘ |
| hasPerceptualLabel | "Utah accent" ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
/eɪ/ monophthongization in some environments for some speakers
ⓘ
/ɛ/ raising before /g/ in words like "egg" and "leg" for some speakers ⓘ cot–caught merger for most speakers ⓘ fronted /u/ and /oʊ/ for many speakers ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticAssociation | LDS Church membership density in Utah ⓘ |
| hasSyntacticFeature | frequent use of "for"-phrases with gerunds (e.g., "needs washed" is less common than in neighboring dialects) ⓘ |
| hasVariationWithin |
rural Utah speech
ⓘ
speech of non-LDS residents of Utah ⓘ urban Utah speech ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Mormon speech patterns
ⓘ
Western American English ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf | regional dialect surveys of American English ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Germanic languages ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| languageSubbranch | West Germanic languages ⓘ |
| orthography | Latin script ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Southwestern American English
ⓘ
surface form:
Intermountain West English
|
| partOf | American English ⓘ |
| regionallyContrastedWith |
California English
ⓘ
Inland North American English ⓘ Western American English ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Northwest English
|
| spokenIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Utah ⓘ |
| studiedInField |
dialectology
ⓘ
sociolinguistics ⓘ |
| timePeriod | primarily contemporary ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Utah-born speakers living elsewhere
ⓘ
residents of Utah ⓘ |
| writingSystem | English alphabet ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.