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==Accents== | ==Accents== | ||
There are 4 to 5 main dialects of English. | There are 4 to 5 main dialects of English. | ||
===L-Standard English=== | ===The Philly-Estuary-Ashkenazi continuum=== | ||
====L-Standard English==== | |||
Californian + RP. Rhoticity in idiolectal or free variation. | Californian + RP. Rhoticity in idiolectal or free variation. | ||
====Vowels==== | =====Vowels===== | ||
*KIT = ɪ~ɪ̈ | *KIT = ɪ~ɪ̈ | ||
*DRESS = ɛ̞ | *DRESS = ɛ̞ | ||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki> L-English Jews speaking in an L-Standard English accent tend to not have the horse-hoarse merger, pronouncing ''horse'' (NORTH) as [hɔəɹs] and ''hoarse'' (FORCE) as [həʊəɹs~həʏəɹs]. | <nowiki>*</nowiki> L-English Jews speaking in an L-Standard English accent tend to not have the horse-hoarse merger, pronouncing ''horse'' (NORTH) as [hɔəɹs] and ''hoarse'' (FORCE) as [həʊəɹs~həʏəɹs]. | ||
====Consonants==== | =====Consonants===== | ||
*L is light [l] before vowels and dark [ɫ] otherwise, as in RP. | *L is light [l] before vowels and dark [ɫ] otherwise, as in RP. | ||
**wholly-holy split. | **wholly-holy split. | ||
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*/r/ may be [ʋ] between vowels. | */r/ may be [ʋ] between vowels. | ||
===Ashkenazi Hebrew | ====Ashkenazi Hebrew accent==== | ||
Not a specifically Jewish accent; but when L-English Jews read Hebrew in it, it sounds just like the Ashkenazi accent. Source of "oy vey" (from ''oh woe'' /øɪ vøɪ/) | Not a specifically Jewish accent; but when L-English Jews read Hebrew in it, it sounds just like the Ashkenazi accent. Source of "oy vey" (from ''oh woe'' /øɪ vøɪ/) | ||