NEW YORK DIALECT
Veronika Šimunková
“New York Accent is how working class whites in the
city speak. It involves dropping r's off words that have
them (father-fatha) and adding them to words that
don't (soda-sodar). Changing and adding "oi" in words
(oil-erl). Pronouncing the "th" as a "d" or "t" (the-
da)(through-trew).”
General NY Dialect
NYC and the surrounding metropolitan area
Average, educated, white Caucasians
Collective influences of immigrants
Eastern European Jewish, Italian, Irish
But not the gangsta model
Those who speak/spoke it
Vowels
Trap set:
[æ]-> [ɛə] after these phonemes: [b, d, ɡ, f, θ, ʃ, ʒ, z, m, n]
Trap, stab, sad, brag, staff, cash, jazz, catch, cram
(not: if the phoneme is followed in the root by a vowel: madam, casual..)
Thought set:
[a] [ɑ]-> [ɔə]
Awful, daughter, awkward, flawless, called, naughty
Price set:
More lip-rounded-> [ai]
Time, lighter, stylish, crime, find, spyglass
Vowels
In RP and other dialects cloth and lot sets-> same
pronunciation
Cloth set:
[ɔə]
Cloth, often, Austria, Boston, dog, lost, strong, soft
Lot set:
[a] or [ɑ]
Hot, stop, boxing, knocking, dol, waffle
Consonants
/t/ is slightly dentalized
[t] -> [d̪ ]
Matter, writer, pretty, pitter-patter, heartache
glottalized
[t] -> [ʔ]
Painting, sentence, entity, fountain, sentinel
/th/ in three, those, etc
[θ ð] -> [t d]
Three, fourth, though, these, them
The /r/
Labialized
Ring, break, stranger, horrible, miracle
Cure set:
dropping r-coloration from [ə]
Cure, near, square, letter, higher, lower
Nurse set:
Thirty-thirty as toidy-toid
[ʌə˞]
Perfect, burn, curse ,dirty, shirt
The /r/
North and force set
r-coloration disappears-> [ɔə] or [ɔwə]
Four, score, ordinary, horses, coarse, lords, story
Start set:
[ɑə]
Carpet, marvelous, heart attack, pardon
Documentary by a New Yorker
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