Papers by Lidia-Gabriela Jarmasz
This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian... more This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian Shift in mainstream Toronto English. The Toronto data suggest that the general pattern of the shift-which affects the front lax vowels /ɪ, ɛ, ae/-involves simultaneous retraction and lowering. Findings also indicate that retraction, instead of lowering, has been the primary direction of more recent change, although little, if any, change has occurred in the speech of Torontonians since the WWII era. In light of these findings, a unified account of the Canadian Shift across speech communities in Canada is proposed that re-interprets the seemingly disparate results of previous studies.
The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique, 2010
: This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadi... more : This study provides the first wide-scale, apparent time, instrumental description of the Canadian Shift in mainstream Toronto English. In contrast with some previous findings, the Toronto data suggest that for the last 70 years or more the shift has not affected the high front lax vowel (I). We observe that the movement of the non-high front lax vowels (ε)
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics, 2015
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Papers by Lidia-Gabriela Jarmasz