[18][19] Younger speakers reversing the fronting of //, for example in Lansing, Michigan, also approach a merger. [16] A South Midland accent is documented by the Atlas as sharing key features with the Southern accent, though to a weaker extent; such features encompass the whole of Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, eastern and central Kansas, southern Missouri, southern Indiana, southern Ohio, and possibly southern Illinois. Unlike most non-rhotic dialects however, there is often no linking r between a final r and a vowel sound. Anglo-America most often refers to a region in the Americas in which English is the main language and British culture and the British Empire have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact. It flows south along the Verdugo Mountains through the eastern communities of the valley to join the Los Angeles River in Studio City. Universal City, an enclave in the southern part of the valley, is an unincorporated area housing the Universal Studios filming lot and theme park. For example, autumn is used more commonly in the United Kingdom, whereas fall is more common in American English. The B Line's two Valley subway stations provide access to national travel through Bob Hope Airport and Amtrak and regional travel through Metrolink, Metro Rapid, Metro Local, and the Metro G Line. The strongest influence on the modern varieties of the English language spoken in Northern England is the Northumbrian dialect of Middle English, but also contact with Old Norse during the Viking Age, with Irish English following the Great Famine and particularly in Lancashire and the south of Yorkshire, with midlands dialects since the industrial revolution, have produced new and distinctive styles of speech. The vowel space of the image is a cross-section (as if looking at the interior of a mouth from a side profile perspective); it is a rough approximation of the space in a human mouth where the tongue is located in articulating certain vowel sounds (the left is the front of the mouth closer to the teeth, the right side of the chart being the back of the mouth). [25][26], A corpus study of Late Modern English texts from or set in Northern England found lad ("boy" or "young man") and lass ("girl" or "young woman") were the most widespread "pan-Northern" dialect terms. The San Fernando Valley has connection to other regions: The Santa Clarita Valley via Newhall Pass, the Westside via Sepulveda Pass, Hollywood via Cahuenga Pass, Simi Valley via Santa Susana Pass, and the Crescenta Valley via Interstate 210. The New York accent features shared with the Yat accent include:[56] non-rhoticity, a short-a split system (so that bad and back, for example, have different vowels), // as high gliding [], /r/ as rounded [~], and the coilcurl merger (traditionally, though now in decline). [18][21], The Mission brogue is a disappearing accent spoken within San Francisco, mostly during the 20th century in the Mission District. Some of these, for example, monkey wrench and wastebasket, originated in 19th century Britain. This appears to be a trait inherited from Irish English, and like Irish speakers, many Northern speakers use reflexive pronouns in non-reflexive situations for emphasis. Language. This article provides an overview of the numerous identifiable variations in pronunciation; such distinctions usually derive from the phonetic Of the 95 neighborhood councils in the city, 34 are in the valley. Public schools in the San Fernando Valley are served by three unified school districts; The Northwest and East Regions of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Glendale Unified School District and the Burbank Unified School District. Other terms in the top ten included a set of three indefinite pronouns owt ("anything"), nowt ("naught" or "nothing") and summat ("something"), the Anglo-Scottish bairn, bonny and gang, and sel/sen ("self") and mun ("must"). "English in North America". In some case, these allow the distinction between formality and familiarity to be maintained, while in others thou is a generic second-person singular, and you (or ye) is restricted to the plural. American English speakers have integrated traditionally non-English terms and expressions into the mainstream cultural lexicon; for instance, en masse, from French; cookie, from Dutch; kindergarten from German,[76] and rodeo from Spanish. [citation needed], During the mid and late 19th century, there was large-scale migration from Ireland, which affected the speech of parts of Northern England. Many compound nouns have the verb-and-preposition combination: stopover, lineup, tryout, spin-off, shootout, holdup, hideout, comeback, makeover, and many more. In 2002, the San Fernando Valley portion of Los Angeles again seriously campaigned to secede from the rest of the city and become its own new independent and incorporated city. More generally, third-person singular forms of irregular verbs such as to be may be used with plurals and other grammatical persons; for instance "the lambs is out". Rather than one particular accent, General American is best defined as an umbrella covering an American accent that does not incorporate features associated with some particular region, ethnicity, or socioeconomic group. There was also some influence on speech in Manchester, but relatively little on Yorkshire beyond Middlesbrough. According to the San Fernando Guide, the change helped develop a "primarily lower to middle-class suburb into a collection of art and a home for the artists who ply their trade in the galleries, theaters and dance studios in this small annex. Similarly, Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico is considered part of Anglo-America because of its status as a unincorporated territory of the United States. [3], In historical linguistics, the dividing line between North and the North-midlands (an area of mixed northumbrian-mercian dialects including the lancashire, the west riding and the peak district dialects) runs from the River Ribble or River Lune on the west coast to the River Humber on the east coast. The adjectives mad meaning "angry," smart meaning "intelligent," and sick meaning "ill" are also more frequent in American (and Irish) English than British English.[92][93][94]. However, the South, Inland North, and a Northeastern coastal corridor passing through Rhode Island, New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore typically preserve an older cotcaught distinction. Alternatively, KIT is lowered to [e], without backing. Within as little as 5 miles there can be an identifiable change in accent. Paper presented at NWAV31. This explains the shift to yan and ane from the Old English n, which is itself derived from the Proto-Germanic *ainaz. The valley is well known for its iconic In addition, damage to several major freeways serving Los Angeles choked the traffic system in the days following the earthquake. [22] Very few terms from Brythonic languages have survived, with the exception of place name elements (especially in Cumbrian toponymy) and the Yan Tan Tethera counting system, which largely fell out of use in the nineteenth century. Examples include the modern RP features of a trapbath split and the fronting of /o/, neither of which is typical of General American accents. [45] It took several decades for southern California locals to start to commonly refer to the freeways with the numerical designations, but usage of the definite article persisted. However, these vowel changes are by no means universal in Californian speech, and any single Californian's speech may only have some or none of the changes identified below. [82] From the world of business and finance came new terms (merger, downsize, bottom line), from sports and gambling terminology came, specific jargon aside, common everyday American idioms, including many idioms related to baseball. Transmission and Diffusion. [4] Although well-suited to historical analysis, this line does not reflect contemporary language; this line divides Lancashire and Yorkshire in half and few would today consider Manchester or Leeds, both located south of the line, as part of the Midlands. However, General American is more innovative than the dialects of England or elsewhere in the world in a number of its own ways: Some mergers found in most varieties of both American and British English include the following: The process of coining new lexical items started as soon as English-speaking British-American colonists began borrowing names for unfamiliar flora, fauna, and topography from the Native American languages. // is the "short u" vowel in STRUT. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. Herold, Ruth (1990). [29] The pronunciation of r is a postalveolar approximant [] (listen) or retroflex approximant [] (listen),[30] but a unique "bunched tongue" variant of the approximant r sound is also associated with the United States, perhaps mostly in the Midwest and the South. [30] Although given the name Northridge, the epicenter was located in the community of Reseda, between Arminta and Ingomar streets, just west of Reseda Boulevard. [3], An alternative approach is to define the linguistic North as equivalent to the cultural area of Northern England approximately the seven historic counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, County Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, or the three modern statistical regions of North East England, North West England and Yorkshire and the Humber. American English and British English (BrE) often differ at the levels of phonology, phonetics, vocabulary, and, to a much lesser extent, grammar and orthography. In Canada, the francophone province of Quebec, Acadia in New Brunswick and a part of Cochrane District[6] are sometimes considered part of Anglo-America for cultural, economic, geographical, historical, and political reasons. A distinctive vowel shift was only first noted by linguists in the 1980s in southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California. Fall for example came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year. [23] In fact, real-time evidence of a small number of Chicagoans born between 1890 and 1920 suggests that // fronting occurred first, starting by 1900 at the latest, and was followed by // raising sometime in the 1920s. [31], American accents that have not undergone the cotcaught merger (the lexical sets .mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}LOT and THOUGHT) have instead retained a LOTCLOTH split: a 17th-century distinction in which certain words (labeled as the CLOTH lexical set) separated away from the LOT set. [18] San Fernando Valley farmers offered to buy the surplus aqueduct[clarification needed] water, but the federal legislation that enabled the construction of the aqueduct prohibited Los Angeles from selling the water outside of the city limits. [27] There is also evidence for an alternative theory, according to which the Great Lakes areasettled primarily by western New Englanderssimply inherited Western New England English and developed that dialect's vowel shifts further. Back Upglide (Chain) Shift: In Southern regional dialects. A few days after the earthquake, 9,000 homes and businesses were still without electricity; 20,000 were without gas; and more than 48,500 had little or no water. [3] These helped fix the socio-economic stereotype of the "Valley girl" into the public consciousness, including a distinct Valley accent. Do you pronounce 'cot' and 'aught' the same? [13], Migrants from all over the Northeastern U.S. traveled west to the rapidly industrializing Great Lakes area in the decades after the Erie Canal opened in 1825, and Labov suggests that the Inland North's general // raising originated from the diverse and incompatible // raising patterns of these various migrants mixing into a new, simpler pattern. As one vowel encroaches upon the space of another, the adjacent vowel in turn experiences a movement in order to maximize phonemic differentiation. AB 62 was signed into law by Governor Pete Wilson. The advent of three new industries in the early 20th centurymotion pictures, automobiles, and aircraftalso spurred urbanization and population growth. A related language, Louisiana Creole French, also exists. [58] The Savannah accent is also becoming more Midland-like. [21][23] Laurel Canyon and Lankershim in 1923,[24]:45 Sunland in 1926,[24]:29 La Tuna Canyon in 1926, and the incorporated city of Tujunga in an eight-year process lasting from 1927 to 1935. From before the 1870s to the 1890s, Irish Americans were the largest share of migrants coming to San Francisco,[25] the majority arriving by way of Northeastern U.S. cities like New York and Boston,[26][27][25] thus bringing those cities' ways of speaking with them. Listen to some examples and add your own, "Saturday Night Live's 'The Californians': Traffic's one big soap opera (video)", "S.F. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [27][28], The 1994 Northridge earthquake struck on January 17 and measured 6.7 on the Moment magnitude scale. Among the proposed names for the new city were "Mission Valley", "Rancho San Fernando", "Camelot", or "Townsville". The Van NuysAirport FlyAway Terminal provides nonstop scheduled shuttle service to LAX and back to the valley, with parking. The pornography industry began to decline by the mid-2000s, owing, for the most part, to the growing amount of free content on the Internet, which undercut consumers' willingness to pay. Juan Francisco Reyes built an adobe dwelling beside a Tongva village or rancheria at natural springs, but the land was soon taken from him so that a mission could be built there. In this Mediterranean climate, post-1790s European agriculture for the mission's support consisted of grapes, figs, olives, and general garden crops. "[90][bettersourceneeded] Gotten (past participle of get) is often considered to be largely an Americanism. Through the late-19th-century court decision Los Angeles v. Pomeroy, Los Angeles had won the rights to all surface flow water atop an aquifer beneath the valley, without it being within the city limits. Regional dialects within Northern England also had many unique terms, and canny ("clever") and nobbut ("nothing but") were both common in the corpus, despite being limited to the North East and to the North West and Yorkshire respectively. // is pulled towards [] (wreck and kettle are sounding more like rack and cattle in other dialects), // is pulled towards [], and // and // merge (cot and stock are sounding more like caught and stalk): the cot-caught merger. In The Rebel and the Kingdom, reporter Bradley Hope tracks North Korean dissident Adrian Hong until he becomes an international fugitive By Simon Finch. Using this definition, the isogloss between North and South runs from the River Severn to the Wash this definition covers not just the entire North of England (which Wells divides into "Far North" and "Middle North") but also most of the Midlands, including the distinctive Brummie (Birmingham) and Black Country dialects. Older Southern sound systems included those local to the:[10]. For older English dialects spoken in this same region, see. For example, it evolved to "the 605 Freeway" and then shortened to "the 605".[45]. [100], Vocabulary differences vary by region. [28] The preservation of rhoticity in North America was also supported by continuing waves of rhotic-accented Scotch-Irish immigrants, most intensely during the 18th century (and moderately during the following two centuries) when the Scotch-Irish eventually made up one-seventh of the colonial population. The San Fernando Valley,[1] known locally as the Valley,[2][3] is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California. The early 20th-century accent of the Inland North was the basis for the term "General American",[6][7] though the regional accent has since altered, due to the Northern Cities Vowel Shift: its now-defining chain shift of vowels that began in the 1930s or possibly earlier. [25] He posits that this hypothetical dialect-mixing event, which initiated the larger Northern Cities Shift (NCS), occurred by about 1860 in upstate New York,[26] and the later stages of the NCS are merely those that logically followed (a "pull chain"). "Vowel Variation in Albuquerque, New Mexico". Since the early 1900s, Cajuns additionally began to develop their own vernacular dialect of English, which retains some influences and words from French, such as "cher" (dear) or "nonc" (uncle). More recent evidence suggests that German-accented English helped to greatly influence the Shift, because German speakers tend to pronounce the English TRAP vowel as [] and the LOT/PALM vowel as [~a], both of which resemble NCS vowels, and there were more speakers of German in the Erie Canal region of upstate New York in 1850 than there were of any single variety of English. ), This page was last edited on 14 November 2022, at 16:50. [27], This article is about Modern Northern England English. The valley is represented in the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, by two supervisorial districts, with the western portion represented by Sheila Kuehl (D) and the eastern portion by Kathryn Barger (R). Atwood (1953) for example, finds that educated people try to avoid multiple modals, whereas Montgomery (1998) suggests the opposite. The NoHo Arts District was established and the name chosen as a reference for its location in North Hollywood and as a play off New York City's arts-centered SoHo District. Other unincorporated areas in the valley include Bell Canyon and Kagel Canyon. The word can be casually used multiple times in multiple ways within a single sentence. Often, these differences are a matter of relative preferences rather than absolute rules; and most are not stable since the two varieties are constantly influencing each other,[97] and American English is not a standardized set of dialects. ", Yannuar, N.; Azimova, K.; Nguyen, D. (2014). ), a few instances before // (as in strong, long, wrong), and variably by region or speaker in gone, on, and certain other words.[32]. These words usually lack an English equivalent and are found in popular restaurants. Accent Samples: Wrestler/Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura. The three male speakers fully participating in the NCS had high levels of education and strong ties to the city" (41). There are several speech features that unite most of the accents of Northern England and distinguish them from Southern England and Scottish accents:[9]. [28] Sounding like a "real San Franciscan" therefore once meant sounding "like a New Yorker",[28] the speakers said to "talk like Brooklynites". Northern English is one of the major groupings of the English language in England; other major groupings include East Anglian English, East and West Midlands English, West Country (Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall) and Southern English English. [32], The Valley attempted to secede in the 1970s, but the state passed a law barring city formation without the approval of the City Council. Sociolinguist William Labov theorizes that this separation reflects a political divide and a controlled study of his shows that Inland Northern speakers tend to be more associated with liberal politics than those of the other dialects, especially as Americans continue to self-segregate in residence based on ideological concerns. [1] This helped to define an accent emerging primarily among youthful, white, urban, coastal speakers, and popularly associated with the valley girl and surfer dude youth subcultures. [112] Non-rhoticity makes a word like car sound like cah or source like sauce.[113]. 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Anglo-America most often refers to a region in the Americas in which English is the main language and British culture and the British Empire have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact. [104] For that Northeastern corridor, the realization of the THOUGHT vowel is particularly marked, as depicted in humorous spellings, like in tawk and cawfee (talk and coffee), which intend to represent it being tense and diphthongal: [o]. [24][25] Non-rhotic American accents, those that do not pronounce r except before a vowel, such as some Eastern New England, New York, a specific few (often older) Southern, and African American vernacular accents, are often quickly noticed by General American listeners and perceived to sound especially ethnic, regional, or "old-fashioned". [25] Other names included the "south of the Slot" (referring to the cable car track running down Market Street)[28] or "south of Market" accent.[29]. [29] The death toll was 57, and more than 1,500 people were seriously injured. [68] There are different opinions on which class preferably uses the term. The answer may have changed over the years", Map: Do Californians have an accent? With transfers, it connects the Valley to the entire Metro regional light rail and subway network. A seasonal river, the Tujunga Wash, drains much of the western facing San Gabriel Mountains and passes into and then through the Hansen Dam Recreation Center in Lake View Terrace. Notable streets include Sepulveda Boulevard, Ventura Boulevard, Laurel Canyon Boulevard, San Fernando Road, Victory Boulevard, Reseda Boulevard, Riverside Drive, Mulholland Drive, and State Route 27 (Topanga Canyon Boulevard). Compounds coined in the U.S. are for instance foothill, landslide (in all senses), backdrop, teenager, brainstorm, bandwagon, hitchhike, smalltime, and a huge number of others. + These communities are also included in the Crescenta Valley. The fronting of // leaves a blank space in Inland North speakers' pronunciation that is filled by lowering // (the "aw" vowel in THOUGHT), which comes to be pronounced with the tongue in a lower position, closer to [] or []. High concentrations of various ethnic groups throughout the state have contributed to general familiarity with words describing (especially cultural) phenomena. However, there is still variation in Southern speech regarding potential differences based on factors like a speaker's exact sub-region, age, ethnicity, etc. The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2"). 2, Article 5. [42][43][44] When southern California freeways were built in the 1940s and early 1950s, local common usage was primarily the freeway name preceded by the definite article, such as "the Hollywood Freeway". For example: "I haven't seen you in hella long"; "There were hella people there"; or "This guacamole is hella good". A number of words and meanings that originated in Middle English or Early Modern English and that have been in everyday use in the United States have since disappeared in most varieties of British English; some of these have cognates in Lowland Scots. Some "Northern" traits can be found further south than others: only conservative Northumbrian dialects retain the pre-Great Vowel Shift pronunciation of words such as town (/tun/, TOON), but all northern accents lack the FOOTSTRUT split, and this trait extends a significant distance into the Midlands. Under the Northern subject rule (NSR), the suffix "-s" (which in Standard English grammar only appears in the third person singular present) is attached to verbs in many present and past-tense forms (leading to, for example, "the birds sings"). Non-Southern Americans tend to associate a Southern accent with lower social and economic class, cognitive and verbal slowness, lack of education, ignorance, bigotry, or religious or political conservatism,[18] using common labels like "hick", "hillbilly",[19] or "redneck" accent. [51], The accents of Texas are actually diverse, for example with important Spanish influences on its vocabulary;[52] however, much of the state is still an unambiguous region of modern rhotic Southern speech, strongest in the cities of Dallas, Lubbock, Odessa, and San Antonio,[4] which all firmly demonstrate the first stage of the Southern Shift, if not also further stages of the shift. [20], Before /r/, only // undergoes the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, so that the vowel in start /strt/ varies much like the one in lot /lt/ described above. [20], In addition to Standard English terms, the Northern English lexis includes many words derived from Norse languages, as well as words from Middle English that disappeared in other regions. Inland Northern // raising was first identified in the 1960s,[16] with // coming to be articulated so that the tongue starts from a position that is closer than it used to be, and then often glides back toward the center of the mouth, thus producing a centering diphthong of the type [] or [e] or at its most extreme []; e.g. [6] While these were certainly the first two vowel shifts of this accent, and Labov et al. Subway, dedicated transitway, and express and local buses, provided by many agencies, serve the San Fernando Valley. Standard English would prefer "existential there", as in "There's one lady who lives in town". Speakers around the Great Lakes began to pronounce the short a sound, // as in TRAP, as more of a diphthong and with a higher starting point in the mouth, causing the same word to sound more like "tray-ap" or "tray-up"; Labov et al. Construction is set to begin in 2021 with a completion date of 2027. "The Effects of the Revolution on Language," in, Gordon, Matthew J.; Schneider, Edgar W. (2008). This dialect fell out of fashion after World War II, but experienced a renewal in primarily male speakers born since the 1970s, who have been the most attracted by, and the biggest attractors for, a successful Cajun cultural renaissance. English Accents & Dialects: an Introduction to Social and Regional Varieties of English in the British Isles. Pop culture references to "hella" are common, as in the song "Hella Good" by the band No Doubt, which hails from southern California, and "Hella" by the band Skull Stomp, who come from northern California.[38]. In contemporary times, the accent is arguably dying out. [90] It is originally a contraction you all which is used less frequently. Today, this French dialect is spoken by many older Cajun ethnic group and is said to be dying out. deletion of any word's final consonant(s) (. Metcalf, Allan A. On February 9, 1971, a magnitude-6.5 event struck about 20 miles (32km) northeast of the epicenter of the 1994 event. Many preserves are maintained as public parkland by the National Park Service's Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, the California State Parks, and local county and municipal parks districts. While authoritative quantification is not available, some estimates have suggested as many as 7% of West Cumbrian dialect words are Norse in origin or derived from it. [28], Recent evidence suggests that the Shift has begun to reverse in at least some of the Inland North,[9][10] such as Lansing, Michigan,[9] and Ogdensburg, Rochester, and Syracuse, New York,[10][29][30] in particular with regard to // fronting and // raising (though raising is persisting before nasal consonants, as is the General American norm). Other notable tributaries of the river include Dayton Creek, Caballero Creek, Bull Creek, Pacoima Wash, and Verdugo Wash. [14] Other sub-regions are unique in that their inhabitants have never spoken with the Southern regional accent, instead having their own distinct accents. The California High-Speed Rail Authority was planning two stations in the Valley, one in Burbank and the other in Sylmar, but the proposed Sylmar high-speed rail station was canceled owing to local opposition from the city of San Fernando. Metrolink always had one Burbank Airport station on the Ventura County Line, but a second Burbank Airport station was built in 2017 on the Antelope Valley Line. American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. In terms of accent, its strongest forms include southern varieties of Appalachian English and certain varieties of "The West and Midwest: phonology." [119] The fronting of the vowels of GOOSE, GOAT, MOUTH, and STRUT tends to also define Southern accents as well as the accents spoken in the "Midland": a vast band of the country that constitutes an intermediate dialect region between the traditional North and South. However, while individuals usually use one or the other, both forms will be widely understood and mostly used alongside each other within the two systems. Specifically, the Atlas definitively documents a Southern accent in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina (though not Charleston), Georgia (though Atlanta is inconsistent), Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Louisiana (co-occurring with Cajun and New Orleans accents), as well as almost all of Texas, southern West Virginia, the Springfield area of Missouri, the Jacksonville area of Florida,[15] and southeastern New Mexico. Internet, cable television, and cellular phone service in the valley are by large private companies. [4], Linguists identify the "St. Louis Corridor", extending from Chicago down into St. Louis, as a dialectally remarkable area, because young and old speakers alike have a Midland accent, except for a single middle generation born between the 1920s and 1940s, who have an Inland Northern accent diffused into the area from Chicago.[11]. Lollipops are also known as "suckers" in this region. Pidgin English is a non-specific name used to refer to any of the many pidgin languages derived from English.Pidgins that are spoken as first languages become creoles.. English-based pidgins that became stable contact languages, and which have some documentation, include the following: In 1874, dry wheat farming was introduced by J. - California English", Vowel Shifts in California and the Detroit Suburbs, The Other California: Marginalization and Sociolinguistic Variation in Trinity County, Stanford linguists seek to identify the elusive California accent, "Why the Myth of the 'San Francisco Accent' Persists", "Is there a San Francisco accent? The first wave of English-speaking settlers arrived in North America during the early 17th century, followed by further migrations in the 18th and 19th centuries. [16][17] English thus predominated in the colonies even by the end of the 17th century's first immigration of non-English speakers from Western Europe and Africa. By the late 1990s, the San Fernando Valley had become more urban and more ethnically diverse with rising poverty and crime. The Paul Thomas Anderson film, Boogie Nights explores these aspects of the valley. Chapman, Kaila (2017). [22] Henry E. Huntington extended his Pacific Electric Railway (Red Cars) through the Valley to Owensmouth (now Canoga Park). Microsofts Activision Blizzard deal is key to the companys mobile gaming efforts. The dialect's progression across the Midwest has stopped at a general boundary line traveling through central Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois and then western Wisconsin, on the other sides of which speakers have continued to maintain their Midland and North Central accents. 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The Los Angeles satellite administrative center for the valley, The Civic Center Van Nuys, is in Van Nuys. The most populous districts of Los Angeles in the Valley are Van Nuys and Pacoima, which like the city of Burbank have more than 100,000 residents each. AmE sometimes favors words that are morphologically more complex, whereas BrE uses clipped forms, such as AmE transportation and BrE transport or where the British form is a back-formation, such as AmE burglarize and BrE burgle (from burglar). This is the dialect spoken in part of America's chief industrial region, an area sometimes known as the Rust Belt. AAVE exhibits an evident relationship with both older and newer Southern dialects, though the exact nature of this relationship is poorly understood. [b] General American features are embraced most by Americans who are highly educated or in the most formal contexts, and regional accents with the most General American native features include North Midland, Western New England, and Western accents. The valley was previously known for advances in aerospace technology and nuclear research by companies such as Lockheed, Rocketdyne and its Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Atomics International, Litton Industries, Marquardt, and TRW's predecessor Thompson Ramo Wooldridge. The valley became the pioneering region for producing adult films in the 1970s and grew to become home to a multibillion-dollar pornography industry, earning the monikers Porn Valley,[42][43][44][45] Silicone Valley (in contrast to Silicon Valley, nickname for the Santa Clara Valley),[46][47][48][49][50] and San Pornando Valley. Two notable territories with substantial non-Anglophone majorities are nonetheless often included in Anglo-America for non-linguistic reasons. 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