Northern Cities Vowel Shift

kmm0010 · 224K views · 2008 · 2:28

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Bill Labov explains the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, a major change in American English pronunciation.

Linked by 3 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including osu.edu, fu-berlin.de, hslinguistics.com.