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“Short” vowels DRESS  
  
843   11:21 صباحاً   date: 2024-07-03
Author : Edgar W. Schneider
Book or Source : A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
Page and Part : 1114-67

“Short” vowels

DRESS

The main variant of this vowel around the globe is a front half-open [ε], to be heard in the British Isles, America and the Caribbean, most of West Africa, SouthEast Asia, and the Pacific region. Raising to [e] is restricted to a small number of regional dialects in L1 varieties and occurs with some currency in AusE and NZE, and a few African and Asian countries (EAfE, CamP, some SAfE accents, PakE and, less commonly, elsewhere in Asia). Other variants are quite restricted, including lowering (in South-East Asia), backing (e.g. in northern AmE dialects), and offgliding (SAmE, again).