Drawl
Appearance
The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the English-speaking world and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (November 2011) |
A drawl is a perceived feature of some varieties of spoken English, and generally indicates longer vowel sounds and diphthongs. Varieties of English which are said to feature pronounced drawls include Southern American English, Broad Australian English, and Broad New Zealand English.
The Southern Drawl, or the diphthongization or triphthongization, of the traditional short front vowels as in the words pat, pet, and pit: these develop a glide up from their original starting position to [j] and, in some cases, back down to schwa.
Look up drawl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- /æ/ → [æj(ə)]
- /ɛ/ → [ɛj(ə)]
- /ɪ/ → [ɪj(ə)]
The "cavalry drawl" was an English phenomenon, noted around 1840. Officers in smart cavalry regiments would talk affecting a drawling delivery, and lisping.[1]
References
- Nagle Stephen, Sanders Sara L. (eds.) (2003). English in the Southern United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. (pp)19, 26.
{{cite book}}
:|first=
has generic name (help)
Notes
- ^ Lawrence James (2 December 2010). Warrior Race: A History of the British at War. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-7481-2535-7.