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The Western Pennsylvania dialect of American English1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 February 2009
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The dialect of Western Pennsylvania is one of the chief varieties of American English and may be considered a subdialect of the so-called General American speech. The dialect has Pittsburgh for its focal point and extends for a radius of probably no more than 200 miles around that city.
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- Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , December 1971 , pp. 69 - 73
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