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Volume 104, Issue 1

1 December 2019

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Kara Becker

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ISSN 0002-8207

EISSN 2157-6114

The Low-Back-Merger Shift: Uniting the Canadian Vowel Shift, the California Vowel Shift, and Short Front Vowel Shifts across North America

Acknowledgments

Notes from the Series Editor

Robert Bayley

1. Introduction

2. Dimensions of Variance and Contrast in the Low Back Merger and the Low-Back-Merger Shift

James Grama; Robert Kennedy

3. The North American Low-Back-Merger Shift: A Continental Sound Change

Charles Boberg

4. The Low-Back-Merger Shift in Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia

Julia Thomas Swan

5. On the Uniformity of the Low-Back-Merger Shift in the U.S. West and Beyond

Valerie Fridland; Tyler Kendall

6. Structural and Social Correlations with the Low-Back-Merger Shift in a U.S. Midland community

Christopher Strelluf

7. A Tale of Two Shifts: Movement Toward the Low-Back-Merger Shift in Lansing, Michigan

Monica Nesbitt; Suzanne Evans Wagner; Alexander Mason

8. Predicting the Path of Sound Change

William Labov

9. A Retrospective on the Low-Back-Merger Shift

Erik R. Thomas

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