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Linguistics student pinpoints differences in Western Canadian dialects

Vowel pronunciation varies between urban and rural populations, study shows.

Click here for Folio & CBC articles. You can also watch the CBC interview here and the CityNews interview here.

U of A undergraduate student Bryce Wittrock (left) and linguist Ben Tucker analyze a waveform from a recording for their study comparing dialects among people in southern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan and Edmonton. (Photo: Geoff McMaster)

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