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New York Dialect: Broad AW

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Summary: The broad AW adds an UH sound in New York, making it more elongated. Learn how to speak in a New York dialect in this free video.

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Tracy Goodwin has a master’s in corporate communication and 10 years experience in professional speaking. Recipient of numerous public speaking awards and is a college professor of...read more

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"Ok we're ready to move on to our next vowel sound which is the broad AW as in aw, and this is words like, and may be spelled with an aw, but it may not even be spelled with an aw. Like in the word saw, it's spelled saw and it sounds like aw, but also you can find that sound in a word like thought which is spelled thought. Aw, thought. What we're going to do is we're simply going to add a sound onto aw. Standard American dialect, I saw, I thought. New York dialect we're going to add an a sound at the end of it awa. I sawa. So it's almost a one, two, three. I sawa. I thawat. It becomes a more elongated vowel. This is very simple and this is very indicative of New York City. Just turn your aw into awa."

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