3. The Phonetic Development of American Raising in Eastern Ohio

erik r. thomas is a professor at North Carolina State University. His research examines phonetic variation in regional and ethnic dialects. He is an author or editor of two previous volumes of Publication of the American Dialect Society. Most recently, he edited Mexican American English: Substrate Influence and the Birth of an Ethnolect (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Email: erthomas@ncsu.edu.

jeff mielke is a professor at North Carolina State University. His research is concerned with the phonetic basis of phonological patterns. He is the author of The Emergence of Distinctive Features (Oxford University Press, 2008), and he is currently an associate editor for Journal of Phonetics and Linguistic Typology. Email: jimielke@ncsu.edu.