4. Easy to identify correpondences
Words spelled with a:
RP NAmEng
Cat
Bad /æ/ /æ/
Man
words spelled with o
RP NAmEng
Pot
Top / ɒ/ /ɑ/
Nod
6. Rhoticity
RP NAmEng
Gnaw /nɔː/ /nɔː/
Nor /nɔːr/
Cod /kɒd/ /kɑd/
Card /kɑːd/ /kɑrd/
7. Phonetic differences
The vowel of pot is unrounded [ɑ] in NAmEng,
rounded [ɒ] in RP.
The vowel /ɔ/ of paw in USEng tends to be shorter,
more open and less rounded than the equivalent vowel
/ɔː/ in RP
Very front realizations of /ou/ such as RP [əʊ] are not
found in most variaties of NAmEng.
8. North American English
consonants ʔ d̯
Glottal stop is found as an allophone of /t/ maily
before /n/ Button [bəʔn] and before /l/: bottle [bɑʔl]
The RP differentiation of /l/: [l] vs [ɫ] is not so strong
in NAmEng. In most variaties, /l/ is fairly dark in all
positions.
Intervocalic /t/ is normally a vocalic flap [d̯ ], not
unlike the flapped /r/ of ScotEng: ladder [læ. d̯ ɹ̝ ]
9. Regional variation in United States
English
Lower south:
Eastern of Virginia, eastern North Carolina, eastern
South Carolina, northern Florida, southern Alabama,
Mississippi, Lousianaand south-eastern Texas.
10. 1. lower Southern accents are non-rhotic, many of
them are so non-rhotic, that they lack linking and
intrusive /r/
2. the vowels /e/ /ɪ/ /æ/ often take a [ə] offglide in
many stressed monosyllables. Bed [bejəd]
3. the vowel /ai/ is often a monothong of the type [a:],
as in high [ha:]
11. 4. the /ei/ and /ou/ diphtongs tend to havefirst
elements rather more open than elsewhere in North
America.
5. The vowel /e/ /ɪ/ are not distinct before a nasal
consonant, so that words such as pin and pen are
identical.
6. The verb forms isn’t, wasn’t are often pronounced
with /d/rather than /z/: idnt – idn/.
