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The document discusses several characteristics of the Texas English dialect, including: 1. The Texas English dialect exhibits the cot-caught merger and monophthongization of the diphthong /aɪ/ in words like "night" such that outsiders may perceive "night" and "not" as homophones. 2. Other features include three mergers before /l/, yod-dropping, the intrusion of /r/ in words like "Washington", and variation of the vowels /ɑːr/ and /ɔːr/ so that "lord" may sound like "lard". 3. A study found that younger,

Author

Mark Bogumil

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