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  1. Cot in the Act: Ethnicity and Age Affects Phonemic Perception of the Low-Back Merger in New York City English

    … about a speaker’s age and ethnicity may influence whether listeners perceive the THOUGHT / LOT distinction. The macro-categories of age and ethnicity have been found to correlate with the lowering of raised THOUGHT (Wong 2012, Becker 2010) and the favoring of the merged vowels in …

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