Canadian raising

English

Examples
  • Sense 1: Canadian pronunciation of out (above) compared with the American pronunciation:
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  • Sense 2: In many dialects of American English, the high in high horse has a slightly different vowel quality from the high in high school.

Noun

Canadian raising (countable and uncountable, plural Canadian raisings)

  2. (phonology, dialectology) 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.
  4. (phonology, dialectology) 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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