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3. Canadian English Pronunciation

English came to Canada in the seventeenth century when the British colonists arrived there. English is one of the national official languages (about 14 million speakers) together with French (about million speakers) in Canada.

Canadian English (CaE) has common phonetic features both with RP and GA. English, which is spoken in Ontario region, is more similar to GA than in other parts of Canada as this region is situated very close to the USA. The most specific phonetic features of CaE are the following:

1. 
   before the voiceless consonants the first element of the diphthongs /a_I/ and /au/ may be substituted by the vowels /_ʌ/and /_ɛ/ in words like out /_ʌut/ or /_ɛut /, nice
   

/n_ʌIs/ or /n_ɛIs/, house /h_ʌus/or /h_ɛus/;

2. 
   in word final position before the sonants /l/ , /m/, /n/, the vowel sounds as /u/,/_ə/,
   

/_I/ may be added: mail /meiul/, film /fil_əm/, known /nou_ən/ etc.;

3. 
   the vowel sound /_ɔ:/ is used both in pod and pawed which sound homophonic, i.e. similar;
   
4. 
   Scottish influence is apparent in Canada, especially in the use of the intermediate /a/ for /_æ/ in words like man, hat, bad in the regions of Nova Scotia and Alberta. For the /au/ diphthong /ou/ and /u/ are heard, which probably reflects
   

Scottish influence as well;

5. 
   the American retroflex /r/ is used in CaE too, nonetheless the retroflex /r/ sounds ―brighter‖ (further front in the Canadian Maritimes than Canada West of the
   

French-speaking belt. It is regarded as a valid dialectological statement);

6. 
   the glottal stop /?/ used in GA is typical of CaE too: mountain, fountain, sentence, accountant;
   
7. 
   /_æ/ is usually used instead of /_ɑ:/ in words like path /p_æθ/, task /t_æsk/ etc.;
   
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