3. The North American Low-Back-Merger Shift: A Continental Sound Change

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Research Article| December 01 2019 3. The North American Low-Back-Merger Shift: A Continental Sound Change Charles Boberg Charles Boberg CHARLES BOBERG is associate professor of linguistics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is a coauthor, with William Labov and Sharon Ash, of The Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology, and Sound Change (Mouton de Gruyter, 2006) and the author of The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis (Cambridge, 2010). Most recently he coedited, with John Nerbonne and Dominic Watt, The Handbook of Dialectology (Wiley Blackwell, 2018). His current research focuses on variation and change in the vocabulary and phonetics of Canadian English as well as on accent variation in North American film and television. Email: charles.boberg@mcgill.ca. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (2019) 104 (1): 56–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-8032935 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Charles Boberg; 3. The North American Low-Back-Merger Shift: A Continental Sound Change. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 December 2019; 104 (1): 56–73. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-8032935 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Dialect SocietyThe Publication of the American Dialect Society Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2019 American Dialect Society2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: ARTICLE You do not currently have access to this content.