Inland Northern American

language
Also known as: General American

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dialect of English

  • global use of the English language
    In English language: Phonology

    …often popularly referred to as General American), are in the pronunciation of certain individual vowels and diphthongs. Inland Northern American vowels sometimes have semiconsonantal final glides (i.e., sounds resembling initial w, for example, or initial y). Aside from the final glides, that American accent shows four divergences from British English:…

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