Homework 10: Language change and variationQuestion 1. Great Lakes accent.Among all the dialect regions in the United States, the Great Lakes region is perhaps the most homogenous, since the major cities in this area (Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee) are simultaneously undergoing a chain shift in the pronunciation of some vowels. This shift involves a kind of rotation of these vowels on the vowel chart. a) Give the IPA transcription of the following words in the Standard American English:Ann, bit, bet, lunch, talk, locksb) Here is the IPA transcription of these words as pronuunced by a speaker from Chicago, and heard by a speaker from Philadelphia:Ann - [iən] or [εən] bit – [bεt] bet – [bʌt] lunch – [lɔnč] talk – [tak] locks – [læks] c) Give SAE spellings for these pronunciations (so, the Philadelphia speaker who transcribed these words would have spelled them this way).d) draw arrows on the vowel chart below, indicaing where each SAE vowel ends up in the Chicago pronunciation (two arrows for “Ann”, since there are two transcriptions, and ignore the sound [ə]). Don’t draw anything for those vowels that don’t appear in the words above, just leave them as is.Question 2. Waltham accent.One of the most noticeable features of the local accent is its r-less nature. However, not all [r]s can be deleted. In the interview with Mayor McCarthy’s, there are the following pronunciations:[r] sometimes deleted: [r] never deleted:after, are, birthday, door, landlord, learned, lifeguard, more, or, parties, organized, north, McCarthy, learned, later, gerbil, born, thereparents, project, experience, different, areas, across, street, roller, rink, growing, pretty, recreation, playgrounds, Paris, cross, reallyWhat is the phonological environment in which the sound [r] can be deleted in Waltham dialect? HINT: think about parts of the syllable where [r] occurs: onset, nucleus, and coda; as well as about vowels and consonants around [r].1Question 3.In the period from 1890 to 1904, Sland and Its Analogues,by J.S. Farmer and W.E. Henley, was published in seven volumes. The following entries are included in this dictionary. For each item, (1) state whether the word or phrase still existts; (2) if not, state what the modern slang term would be; and (3) if the word remanins, but its meaning has changed, provide the modern meaning. all out completely, as in “All out the best” (the expression goes back to as early as 1300) to have apartments to let be an indiot, one who is empty-headedbeen there in “Oh yes, I’ve been there.” Applied to a man who is shrewd and who has had many experiences.belly-button the navelberkeleys a woman’s breastsbitch most offensive appellation that can be given to a woman, even more provoking than that of whoreonce in a blue moon seldomboss master; one who directsbread employment (1875 - “out of bread” = “out of work”)claim to stealcut dirt to escapedog cheap of little worth (Used in 1615 by Dekker: “Three things there are dog-cheap, learning, poorman’s sweat, and oathes.”to get over to seduce, to fascinategroovy settled in habit; limited in mindgrub foodhead toilet (nautical use only)to hook to marryto hump to spoilhush money money paid for silence; blackmailto itch to be sexually excitedjam a sweetheart or a mistressleg bags stockingsto lie low to keep quiet; to bide one’s timeto lift a leg on to have sexual intercourselooby a foolmalady of France syphilisnix nothingnoddle headpuss-gentleman an effemenate
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