The Persistence of Ethnic Identity in Montreal English
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This paper presents the final results of an acoustic study of ethno-phonetic differentiation among native varieties of English spoken in Montreal, Canada. The preliminary results, published in Boberg (2004), gave a tentative picture of phonetic differentiation among the three largest ethnic groups in the Montreal English speech community: people of British/Irish, Italian and Ashkenazi Jewish ethnic origin. The complete set of data is now available: a sample of 93 people from a broad range of social backgrounds, subjected to acoustic phonetic and multivariate statistical analysis. These data produce a more reliable and detailed view of how phonetic variables are correlated with ethnic origin.
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