Leslie Diaz Baeza

History and origins  Canadian English as a hybrid of British and American Englishes. It also has influence for french.  This variety of english is a product of four waves of immigrations, the most important ones: The Loyalists form Northern America From Britain and Ireland From france

Spelling…  Canadian English combines both American and British rules…  In some French-derived words, Canadian English retains the British Spelling Color-Honour-centre  In oder cases both Canadian and American English differ form British, in spelling words such as Tire and Curve

 Canadian English retains the practice of British English of doubling consonant when adding suffixes to words even when the syllable is not estressed: Travelled / Traveled

Phonemic Incidence  Words of french origin, such as Corissant or niche are pronounced as they would be in french, so: /kɹəˈsɒn(t)/ /niʃ/  Words such as adult-composite and proyect are given emphasis on the first syllable as in Britain.  lever /ˈlivə/ - either and neither are more commonly /ˈaɪðər/ and /ˈnaɪðər/

Regional Variations

 Western and Central Dialects As in North American English, these regions are characterized by the Rothic accent.  Canadian Rising It is the most relevant feature of Canadian English, Here the dipthongs /aɪ/ and /aʊ/ are "raised" before the voiced consonants; /p/ /t/ /k/ and /f/ as in writer

The low-black merger and the Canadian shift This first term consists on th complete merger of the vowel /ɔ/ and /ɑ/ by [ɒ](Caught and cot respectively) Resulting from this merger and the space in articulation that it leaves a low-front vowel is /æ/ is retracted to a low-central articulation. The result is the ultilization of the same vowel to words such as; stack and stock.

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