User:Jillyoung2/New York accent

GRAMMAR ERRORS:

Replace last sentence of first paragraph: The following sounds and speech patterns predominantly characterize the traditional New York accent.

Rephrase sentence: Meanwhile, the latter set of words, retains a lax, low front typical.....

Fixing sentence fragment: New York groups with the "North" class dialects

Change: also moving also upward to also moving upward

Fix: One of the New York speech stereotypes

Fixing wordy/lengthy sentence: A lowering of New York's traditionally raised caught vowel is similarly taking place among younger residents of Manhattan's Lower East Side. This is seen most intensely among white (including Jewish) New Yorkers, fairly intensely among Latino and Asian New Yorkers, but not among African-American New Yorkers. Therefore, this reverses a trend documented among white Lower East Siders in the 20th century.

ADDING TO THE ARTICLE

Social and geographic variation
For example, an assumption on different geographical accents is that younger generations are beginning to have a more nasally form of speech in Queens. Whereas, in the Bronx, speakers talk more heavily through the back of their throat. Additionally, Bronx speakers often act 'tough' and try to put a big emphasis on consonants.

Consonants

 * Rhoticity: In more modern times, the post-vocal /r/ has become more prominent. When New Yorkers are more conscious of what they are saying, the /r/ is more evident in their speech. In terms of social stratification, the lower class tends to use rhoticity less than the upper and middle New York classes. Also, rhoticity is noticeably based on age since younger generations will pronounce /r/ at the end of their sentences (coda position).