An introduction to: trisyllabic laxing, vowel shift, and Canadian raising

Rempel, Rosemary2016-06-102016-06-101975-01Rempel, R. (1975). An introduction to: trisyllabic laxing, vowel shift, and Canadian raising. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 1(Winter), 3-7.2371-2643http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51254In our English language we have a number of words that we know are somehow the same and yet we pronounce them very differently. Let's take a look at the phonetic form of some of these words, in particular, certain vowel sounds.enEnglish language--CanadaLinguisticsDialectologyCanadian raisingTrisyllabic laxingVowel shiftPhoneticsAn introduction to: trisyllabic laxing, vowel shift, and Canadian raisingjournal article10.11575/PRISM/28860