Jack Chambers (linguist)
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Jack Chambers (linguist)
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J. K. "Jack" Chambers is a Canadian linguist, and a well-known expert on language variation and change, who has played an important role in research on Canadian English since the 1980s; he has coined the terms "Canadian Raising" and "Canadian Dainty", the latter used for Canadian speech that mimics the British, popular till the mid-20th century. He has been a professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto since receiving his a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 1970. He has also been
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Canadian linguist
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2023-03-19T11:50:05Z
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