• NPR : American Accent Undergoing Great Vowel Shift
  Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds in the inland northern cities. He calls it the northern city shift.
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