Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84367 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Serie Documentos de Trabajo No. 459
Publisher: 
Universidad del Centro de Estudios Macroeconómicos de Argentina (UCEMA), Buenos Aires
Abstract: 
This paper uses a least-square regression method that relates per-capita income to four phonetic characteristics (r-dropping, and the so-called father-bother, cot-caught and pin-pen mergers), to study the socio-economic significance of those characteristics in North American English. As a result we find a positive and statistically significant relationship between per-capita income and r-dropping, and between per-capita income and the presence of the cot-caught merger, and a negative and statistically significant relationship between per-capita income and the pin-pen merger. No statistically significant relationship is found, however, between per-capita income and the presence of a father-bother merger or split.
Subjects: 
statistical regression
phonetic characteristics
per-capita income
North American English
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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