Question
A 2009 study by Kara Becker discusses how variation in this feature builds place identity, noting that older people did not use this feature in talking about their neighborhood. In a study of Say Yes to the Dress, bridal consultants modulate use of this feature depending on perceived willingness to pay. The high-prestige dialect in antebellum Charleston was marked by this feature, which reversed from low to high-prestige in (*) New York City after WWII. The prestige of this feature unusually reverses polarity between the dominant dialects of American and British English. Lower-middle-class people aspirationally adopted this feature in a survey of three NYC department stores that asked people to pronounce “fourth floor.” For 10 points, urban East Coast accents exhibit what feature of pronouncing “r”s? ■END■
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Matt Jackson | Chicago A | OSU | 61 | -5 |
Subhamitra Banerjee Roychoudhury | Michigan | WUSTL | 61 | -5 |
Iain Carpenter | Illinois | Amartya Senpai Notice Me | 65 | 15 |
Patrick Quion | Purdue University Fightin' Hadrien Davids | Chicago B+ | 73 | 10 |
Chris Sims | Northwestern | Epic Games | 78 | 10 |
Nick Jensen | Mojo Shojo | Brownstein et al. | 88 | -5 |
Undetermined 4th | Brownstein et al. | Mojo Shojo | 106 | 10 |
Clark Smith | OSU | Chicago A | 124 | 10 |
Jeremy Cummings | WUSTL | Michigan | 125 | 10 |