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- General_American abstract "General American (abbreviated as GA or GenAm) is an umbrella variety of American English—a continuum of accents—commonly attributed to a majority of Americans and perceived as lacking any notably regional, ethnic, or socioeconomic characteristics. However, the General American sound system does, in fact, have traceable regional origins: namely, the Northern speech patterns of the non-coastal Eastern United States, including interior Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and the adjacent Midwestern region, prior to the Northern Cities Vowel Shift of the mid-20th century.According to British phonetician John C. Wells, Standard Canadian English aligns to General American rather than England's Received Pronunciation in every situation where these latter two differ. He also asserted that, by 1982, two-thirds of the U.S. population spoke General American English. Due to the prevalence of General American speech, it is sometimes, though controversially, referred to as a de facto standard accent of the United States. Scholars continue to debate the precise definition and usefulness of the term, with those who use it today admittedly doing so as a convenient basis for comparison rather than for exactness.".
- General_American wikiPageExternalLink USE_Diphthongs.html.
- General_American wikiPageExternalLink USE_Monophthongs.html.
- General_American wikiPageExternalLink d10_GAGC.pdf.
- General_American wikiPageExternalLink 051114ta_talk_seabrook.
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- General_American wikiPageExternalLink d10_GAGC.pdf.
- General_American wikiPageExternalLink StyleGuide.doc.
- General_American wikiPageExternalLink SglLgAmericanStandard.htm.
- General_American wikiPageExternalLink cmudict.
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- General_American wikiPageRevisionID "683669240".
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Accent_(sociolinguistics).
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Accent_reduction.
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- General_American wikiPageWikiLink American_West.
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- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Atlas_of_North_American_English.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Bloomington-Normal.
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- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Boston_accent.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink British_Received_Pronunciation.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink California.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Cambridge_University_Press.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_English.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_raising.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_English.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_the_United_States.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Category:Standard_languages.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Boberg.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Chicago.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Conservative_(language).
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Conservative_(linguistics).
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- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Cot–caught_merger.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink De_facto.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Des_Moines,_Iowa.
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- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Great_Lakes_region.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Help:IPA_for_English.
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- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Lincoln,_Nebraska.
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- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Mid-Atlantic_United_States.
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- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Mid-Atlantic_states.
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- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Midwestern_United_States.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Missouri.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Monophthong.
- General_American wikiPageWikiLink Nasal_consonant.