"We found that, here in Georgia, white English speakers' accents have been shifting away from the traditional Southern pronunciation for the last few generations," said Margaret Renwick, associate professor in UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of linguistics and lead on the study."Today's college students don't sound like their parents, who didn't sound like their own parents.
The analysis was carried out with recordings of white individuals native to Georgia, born from the late 19th century to the early 2000s. The researchers focused on the way the recorded speakers pronounced vowels. The team found that older Georgians pronounced the word"prize" as prahz and"face" as fuh-eece, but the youngest speakers use prah-eez and fayce. Former UGA graduate student and co-author Joseph A.
"Changes to the diphthong in 'prize' are the oldest characteristic pronunciation in Southern speech, that can be traced back well over 100 years," Renwick said."The Southern pronunciation of words like 'face' emerged in the early 20th century. These are distinctive features of the traditional Southern drawl."
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