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2) /ɔ/ or /u/ to /ə/ sound
This feature is the most prominent non-standard feature with the

highest occurrence. It shows how the speakers use colloquial to make the
words easy and fast to pronounce.
- I can’t get that outa my head [IDB, p.425]
- we hadda walk ten miles [OMM, p.23]

- ya wanta squeeze in with us an' go? [TGW, p.72]
Like vowel and diphthong substitutions, consonant substitutions
are what make speakers of SAE sound different from speakers of Standard
English. However, noticing these features may be difficult for non-native
speakers or even to native speakers of other parts of the United States to

perceive since some words are pronounced closely to what average
Americans said; only a single sound is changed or is dropped. Therefore,
one good thing about studying Southern American English through literature
is that the author can be regarded as a linguist who indirectly transcribes
words without using phonetic symbols. The results of consonant substitutions
are shown in table 4.

Table 4 The results of consonant substitutions

Non-standard Excerpts Standard forms No. of
forms occurrence
1. Final /iŋ/ to /ɪn/ workin’, working, 2,836
somethin’, tryin’ something, trying

2. /skd/ at the end of ast ask 41
the word to /st/
3. /s/ to /st/ in final acrost across 27
position