Utah English

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Utah English, sometimes humorously referred to as "Utahnics", is a dialect of the English language spoken in the U.S. state of Utah. Influences are as varied as ancestries of its immigrants, from Scottish to Mexican Spanish. Since the field of sociolinguistics is relatively new to academia, very little research has been done on the dialect. However, a research team at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah has begun a comparative project on the topic.[1]

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[edit] Distinctions of the dialect

[edit] Vowel shifts

[edit] Introduction, removal, and morphing of stops and plosives

  • Shortening of some words from several syllables to one or two (different from general consonant cluster reduction): "corral" as /kɹɑl/.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://linguistics.byu.edu/utep/English.swf

[edit] References

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