Peter Sipes
Sociolinguistic considerations
Poverty and education levels similar to US average Home-ownership rate above US average Highest median age in the US (source: Maine DHHS) Settled by the English in 17th Century
Data source: US Census Bureau, 2010 census data, unless noted
Northeastern Maine has a different accent due to prevalence of French (22.4% speak at home in Aroostook County)
ayuh wicked some jeezum Some speakers use double negatives Adjectives (e.g. some, wicked) as adverbs So don't I
Rhoticity
R-deletion
immediately after a vowel some consonants may follow heart, hard, harsh
never between vowels (in theory, I've heard otherwise) allows for English words to end in lax vowels lobster ['lbst]
Rhoticity
R-deletion
Rhoticity
R-insertion
only r-deleters do this same as r-deletion, but in reverse always between vowels (in theory, I've heard otherwise) an idea of it [n edir v t] motor oil [mot l]
Ayuh
Vowels in General
cut in half [kt n hf] lobster ['lbst] notch [nt] the reverse of what we're doing in Chicago father ['fa]
G dropping
many speakers will use the morpheme /n/ instead of // probably more of a sociolinguistic thing than phonological
Nagy and Roberts say that some areas have no merger, other areas (Calais) has a two-way merger
variable throughout // for /t/, particularly word end is typical of Vermont can also be heard here from NH (similar to ME)
Final t glottalization
www.lowlands-l.net/anniversary/newhampshireipa.php
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