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Date: 2024-03-19
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Vowels THOUGHT
Upgliding forms of THOUGHT/CLOTH, , are stereotypically associated with Southern speech in general. The actual picture, of course, is more complicated. There are a few Atlantic coastal areas – the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, the Pamlico Sound area, and the South Carolina/Georgia Low Country–in which upgliding forms did not traditionally occur; instead, raised, monophthongal
occurred. In the rest of the South, upgliding forms predominate, but there have always been many speakers who used monophthongal forms exclusively, and raised monophthongs are common after [w], as in want and water. In older speech, raised, upgliding forms,
, were common, though some speakers showed wider diphthongization, such as
or even
. During the 20th century there was apparently a trend toward lower variants, and today the most common form is
.
Merger of THOUGHT/CLOTH with LOT has been spreading recently in the South, especially in two areas: an Appalachian area including West Virginia, western Virginia, and eastern Kentucky and a western area extending from Texas and Oklahoma east through Arkansas, middle and western Missouri, and the vicinity of Memphis, Tennessee. Occasional speakers elsewhere show it as well. The result is a realization as [a]. A possible stigma against upgliding variants may promote the merger.
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