english_britain_ireland · United Kingdom

West Midlands (Birmingham / Black Country)

english_britain_irelandadvanced

United Kingdom · Birmingham and the Black Country

A northern vowel system with a distinctly non-northern set of diphthongs. Like Lancashire it has neither the FOOT-STRUT nor the TRAP-BATH split. Unlike Lancashire, PRICE backs and rounds toward [ɑɪ], GOAT starts open at [ʌʊ], and NG-coalescence never happened -- so 'singer' really does rhyme with 'finger', which is the single most reliable tell of the region. H-dropping is general. Non-rhotic.

No FOOT-STRUT splitNo TRAP-BATH splitNG-coalescence absent: singer rhymes with fingerH-droppingBacked PRICE, open GOAT

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Feature	Value	Drill
Languagelanguage	en	Drill
Mixed Languagesmixed_languages	—	Drill
S Treatments_treatment	standard	Drill
D Intervocalicd_intervocalic	standard	Drill
D Finald_final	standard	Drill
R Infinitiver_infinitive	standard	Drill
R Initialr_initial	approximant	Drill
N Final Velarizationn_final_velarization	No	Drill
Final Consonant Dropfinal_consonant_drop	none	Drill
Vowel Reductionvowel_reduction	crisp_open	Drill
Syllable Timingsyllable_timing	stress_timed	Drill
T Glottalizationt_glottalization	word_final	Drill
Ng Realizationng_realization	velar_nasal_plus_g	Drill
H Droppingh_dropping	Yes	Drill