VAR_027 - Linguistic Micro-Lectures: The Northern Cities Shift (NCS)

In this short micro-lecture, Laila Titchaoui, one of Prof. Handke's students, discusses the Northern Cities Shift, an ongoing sound shift of North American English that affects the NAE variants spoken around the Great Lakes.

[justthecoolestdudeyo]

This is really interesting! I always thought of Southern American English as a variety of accents, but never really considered the Northern Midwest to also have linguistic differences and change, although I suppose it was silly to assume that!

[johndingman]

Having lived in Cleveland my whole life I can say that I’ve never heard anyone use this vowel shift.