Canadian raising
nounDefinitions
The phenomenon in some dialects of English, especially Canadian English, in which /aɪ/ is…
The phenomenon in some dialects of English, especially Canadian English, in which /aɪ/ is realized as [ʌɪ] and/or /aʊ/ is realized as [ʌʊ] or [ɛʊ] before underlying unvoiced consonants.
A similar but more restricted phenomenon, found in most dialects of American English,…
A similar but more restricted phenomenon, found in most dialects of American English, that applies only to /aɪ/, which is realized as [ʌɪ] in certain contexts, especially before underlying unvoiced consonants but with significant speaker-to-speaker variation.
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No curated loop yet for Canadian raising. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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