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Northern American English or Northern U.S. English (also, Northern AmE) is a class of historically related American English dialects, spoken by predominantly white Americans, [1] in much of the Great Lakes region and some of the Northeast region within the United States.
In North America, different English dialects of immigrants from England, Scotland, Ireland, and other regions of the British Isles mixed together in the 17th and 18th centuries.
4 gru 2017 · This chapter reviews the most important dialectological research on North American English and the main dialect divisions it has established.
This chapter defines the major dialects of North America on the basis of the status of the low short vowels /*/ and /o/ and the active chain shifts and mergers. Other draft chapters are available in the Table of Contents of the Atlas of North American English.
Map 1 shows four major dialect regions: the Inland North, the South, the West, and the Midland. The first three show a relatively uniform development of the three major sound shifts of American English, each moving in different directions.
1 lis 2012 · One of the main divisions is ethnic: North American English includes a wide range of ethnic dialects, or ethnolects, such as African American and Latino English, in addition to the 'standard' varieties associated with people of British and, later, European ethnic ancestry.
This chapter.establishes the dialects of North America on the basis of the status of the low short vowels /æ/ and /o/ and their role in active chain shifts and mergers.. The full range of topics presented in the Atlas may be seen in the Table of Contents of the Atlas of North American English.
