Northern Dialect
The dialect spoken by inhabitants of such regions as Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean and Côte-Nord is characterized by long, stretched vowels in the middle of words, usually "e" or "a" in words such as "père" or "case", pronounced as /pei̯ʁ/ and /kaːz/. Other examples include an "eating" of the letter "r" at the end of the words, so instead of saying "cuisinière" (/kɥizinjɛːʁ/), speakers might say instead "cuisiniéille" (/kɥizinjej/), which contrasts with "cuisinier" (pronounced as /kɥizinje/). See Lavoie et al. (1985), in particular.
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