Browsing Strathy Student Working Papers on Canadian English by Publish Date
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Singular Concord in Ottawa Valley English
(2012-12-06)This paper investigates a syntactic phenomenon known as singular concord as it exists in the dialect of Ottawa Valley English. Singular concord refers to a construction wherein a plural subject presents with third person ... -
Past tense formation with irregular lexical verbs in Canadian English
(2013-02-04)There is a set of lexical verbs in English ending in /-l, -m, -n/ (e.g., to spill, to dream, to burn) that receives a different form of the past tense in British versus American English. While in American English these ... -
Didja know? A comparative study of affrication across word boundaries in Canadian and American English
(2013-12-12)The present study investigates affrication across word boundaries as an allophonic process that distinguishes Canadian English (CE) and American English (AE). Ten CE speakers and ten northeastern AE speakers were recorded ... -
Testing Canada’s ‘honour’: Does orthography index ideology?
(2014-03-10)Recent studies in orthographic variation have assumed identity-driven motivations for spelling choice (Lipski 1975, Schieffelin & Doucet 1994, Sebba 2000), linking this motivation to national ideological positions. In the ... -
"Would you like fries with thaaaat?" Investigating vocal fry in young, female Canadian English speakers
(2014-09-04)The vocal fry register has previously been detected in the voices of young women. The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which vocal fry is present among young female Canadian English speakers and to ... -
Discerning the sub-phonemic identity of pre-nasal /æ/ in British Columbia English
(2016-09-13)There are two features of /æ/ in British Columbia (BC) English that are widely attested in the literature: it is undergoing retraction and lowering and it is sensitive to the influence of certain following consonants. The ...