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Local accent of English spoken in Boston
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A Boston accent is a local accent of Eastern New England English, native specifically to the city of Boston and its suburbs. Northeastern New England English is classified as traditionally including New Hampshire, Maine, and all of eastern Massachusetts, while some uniquely local vocabulary appears only around Boston.[1][2] A 2006 study co-authored by William Labov claims that the accent remains relatively stable,[3] though a 2018 study suggests the accent's traditional features may be retreating, particularly among the city's younger residents, and becoming increasingly confined to historic irish and Italian areas in the city/suburbs partially the Irish-American neighborhood of South Boston.[4]
^Schneider, Edgar; Bernd Kortmann (2005). A Handbook of Varieties of English: A Multi-Media Reference Tool. Mouton de Gruyter. p. 270. ISBN 978-3-11-017532-5.
^Millward, C.M. (1996). A Biography of the English Language. Wadsworth Publishing. p. 353. ISBN 978-0-15-501645-3.
^Labov, William (2010). The Politics of Language Change: Dialect Divergence in America. The University of Virginia Press. Pre-publication draft. p. 53.
^Browne, Charlene; Stanford, James (2018). "Boston Dialect Features in the Black/African American Community." University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 24 : Iss. 2 , Article 4. p. 19.
transcription delimiters. A Bostonaccent is a local accent of Eastern New England English, native specifically to the city of Boston and its suburbs. Northeastern...
2015. Boston shares many cultural roots with greater New England, including a dialect of the non-rhotic Eastern New England accent known as the Boston accent...
often associated with a cultivated New England or Mid-Atlantic dialect and accent, Harvard University, Anglicanism, and traditional British American customs...
famously the Bostonaccent, which is native to the northeastern coastal regions of New England. The most identifiable features of the Bostonaccent are believed[by...
New England English (such as the Bostonaccent), the Pittsburgh accent, and variably in some older New York accents, which may retain a rounded articulation...
Lucas Hedges. She practiced her character's Bostonaccent by working with a dialect coach and going to Boston-area malls to hear how local teenage girls...
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starting [ˈstaʔɪn]. Thus, Maine accent follows the pronunciation of Eastern New England English, like the Bostonaccent, but with the following additional...
York City, some Southern U.S., and some African-American accents, but not the Bostonaccent). This results in a greatly expanded number of homophonous...
1953) is an American comedian and actor. He is known for his thick Bostonaccent and as the role of Uncle Teddy on the series Rescue Me. Clarke was born...
Republic of Ireland. Like Scottish and most North American accents, almost all Irish accents preserve the rhoticity which has been lost in the dialects...
film by Merchant Ivory Productions Bostonaccent, the dialect of American English spoken by native residents of Boston, Massachusetts Bostonian, a dress...
Australian accent. Problems playing this file? See media help. Speech example An example of a woman from South Australia with a broad accent (Julia Gillard)...
his speech, including at the end, pronouncing the sentence with his Bostonaccent and reading from his note "ish bin ein Bearleener", which he had written...
family. Like the Kennedys, Quimby is of Irish descent, "speaks with a Bostonaccent, throws money at political problems, and vacations in a coastal resort...
American English accents spoken in the region including New England English and BostonAccent. The New England English dialect and Bostonaccent are native...
with the enunciated "r" in the word "wizard", as opposed to Haley's Bostonaccent. Ebsen's recording of the Tin Man's solo "If I Only Had a Heart" is...
fellow Boston native. Nimoy worked with him to eliminate his heavy Bostonaccent and had him take speech lessons. Rocco followed through with Nimoy's...
was born in Boston, living there until the age of seven when her family moved to Connecticut. She represses a working-class Bostonaccent, which results...
"This faux-trailer for Seth Meyers's Boston Accent movie is literally the most Boston thing ever". Boston.com. "Podcast: Documentary on Newstalk: Clear...
rather than hatred. Stretch is the lanky leader of the Trio with a thick Bostonaccent. Stretch is the most aggressive at scaring the living by morphing his...
teenagers in love. The teens and their friends speak in a highly affected Bostonaccent. The sketches are presented in the format of home video footage filmed...
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real-life Bostonaccent, and the Devil is depicted as a New York Yankees fan, playing off the historic rivalry between the Yankees and Boston Red Sox....
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