Editing Boston accent (section)

{{short description|Local accent of English spoken in Boston}}
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A '''Boston accent''' is a [[regional accent|local accent]] of [[Eastern New England English]], native specifically to the city of [[Boston]] and its suburbs. '''Northeastern New England English''' is classified as traditionally including [[New Hampshire]], [[Maine]], and all of [[Greater Boston|eastern Massachusetts]], while some uniquely local vocabulary appears only around Boston.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Schneider | first = Edgar |author2=Bernd Kortmann | title = A Handbook of Varieties of English: A Multi-Media Reference Tool | publisher = Mouton de Gruyter | year = 2005 | page = 270 | isbn = 978-3-11-017532-5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | last = Millward | first = C.M. | title = A Biography of the English Language | publisher = Wadsworth Publishing | year = 1996 | page = 353 | isbn = 978-0-15-501645-3}}</ref> A [[Atlas of North American English|2006 study]] co-authored by [[William Labov]] claims that the accent remains relatively stable,<ref name="Labov 2010">Labov, William (2010). ''[http://www.cogsci.msu.edu/DSS/2011-2012/Labov/POLC%20Chapters%201-3.pdf The Politics of Language Change: Dialect Divergence in America]''. The University of Virginia Press. Pre-publication draft. p. 53.</ref> though a 2018 study suggests the accent's traditional features may be retreating, particularly among the city's younger residents, and becoming increasingly confined to the historically [[Irish-American]] neighborhood of [[South Boston]].<ref>Browne, Charlene; Stanford, James (2018). "[https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2019&context=pwpl Boston Dialect Features in the Black/African American Community]." University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 24 : Iss. 2 , Article 4. p. 19.</ref>