Ethnic patterns in the phonetics of Montreal English

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 538-568

  Boberg, Charles ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic analysis; Canadian English; English vowels; Ethnolects; Montreal English; Speech communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 28444485308     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2004.00273.x     Document Type: Review

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