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Professor William Labov, a University of Pennsylvania linguist and author of the new book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change, says there is a shift of vowel sounds ...

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IF you will permit me to refer at this late date to Prof. Scripture's articles in NATURE of January 13 and 20 last on the nature of vowel sounds, I should like to emphasise the great service that the ...