Southern drawl
English
Alternative forms
- southern drawl
Noun
Southern drawl (plural Southern drawls)
- (phonetics) The diphthongisation or triphthongisation of the vowels /æ/, /ɛ/ and /ɪ/ into [æj(ə)], [ɛj(ə)] and [ɪj(ə)], occurring in English spoken in the Southern United States.