2021年8月5日 · Together with Dr. Julie Roberts at the University of Vermont, Brave Little State developed a prompt that included certain key words and phrases designed to bring out the Vermont accent in someone who has one. We asked you to record yourself reading it and send it along to be part of the episode — and you did!

Northwestern New England English, sometimes labeled as a Vermont accent, is the most complete or advanced Western New England English variety in terms of the cot–caught merger, occurring largely everywhere north of Northampton, Massachusetts, towards [ɑ]. [18]

University of Vermont professor and linguist, Julie Roberts, studies the Vermont accent by analyzing how it has changed over the years in relation to Vermont migration patterns. She uses this...

2016年8月5日 · The Vermont accent(s) of yesteryear. But the Vermont accent didn’t always sound the way it did today. Older speakers tend to have a more pronounced long vowels, in words like loy-t or ke-ow, Roberts said. One living example of this comes courtesy of Fred Fletcher, a farmer from Fletcher, in Franklin County.

The Northeast Kingdom accent is also known as gargling marbles. Older Kingdom dwellers have a distinctive nasal quality in their speech, and they love to elongate vowels. “Cat” might sound an awful lot like “caaat.” “Idea” sounds like “Oideer.”

2021年8月1日 · While certain aspects of the Vermont accent fade away, one element is not only enduring, but evolving. According to new research by a linguist at Georgetown University, what’s known as...

2021年11月25日 · What is considered the Vermont accent has characteristics hundreds of years in development, while others are a more modern evolution. Can you detect the accent? Here is how it has evolved over...

2016年6月24日 · What does the Vermont accent sound like? To find out, we've developed a prompt with UVM linguist Julie Roberts. Record yourself reading it, and send it our way!

2012年2月15日 · Glottal Stop: Probably the best known aspect of the Vermont accent, and the most pervasive, even among flatlanders who, over time, can unconsciously adopt a slight Vermont twang of their own....

2009年1月14日 · When Fred Tuttle exposed the rest of the world to Vermont’s unique dialect in the 1996 film Man with the Plan, it seemed the classic accent was alive and well. Not so, according to Julie Roberts, professor of communication sciences, who says most young Vermonters today display very few elements of the state’s folksy way of talking.