Mid-Atlantic English

E509600

dialect of English regional variety of American English

Mid-Atlantic English is a regional variety of American English spoken in the coastal states between New England and the South, characterized by distinctive vowel patterns and lexical features found in areas such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Mid-Atlantic American English	1
Mid-Atlantic English canonical	1

Statements (43)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	dialect of English ⓘ regional variety of American English ⓘ
geographicallyBetween	New England English NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern American English NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasAlternativeDefinition	regional English spoken in coastal states between New England and the South ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	distinctive lexical features ⓘ distinctive vowel patterns ⓘ regional phonological variation ⓘ regional vocabulary variation ⓘ
hasExampleArea	Delaware NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasFeature	distinctive short-a system in some subvarieties ⓘ regionally marked pronunciation of certain diphthongs ⓘ regionally specific lexical items ⓘ
hasLanguageBranch	West Germanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguageFamily	Germanic languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Indo-European languages NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasParentLanguage	English NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasParentVariety	American English NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasRegister	informal speech ⓘ regional everyday speech ⓘ
hasWritingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ
isPartOf	North American English dialect continuum NERFINISHED ⓘ
isSubjectOf	research on American regional dialects ⓘ
overlapsWith	Baltimore English NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City English ⓘ Philadelphia English NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenInCountry	United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenInRegion	Mid-Atlantic region of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenInState	Delaware NERFINISHED ⓘ District of Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Maryland NERFINISHED ⓘ New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ New York NERFINISHED ⓘ Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ
spokenInUrbanArea	Baltimore metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ New York metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ
studiedInField	dialectology ⓘ sociolinguistics ⓘ
usedBy	speakers in coastal states between New England and the American South ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

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

New Jersey English → associatedWith → Mid-Atlantic English ⓘ

Inland North American English → contrastedWith → Mid-Atlantic English ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mid-Atlantic American English