New England accent

New England English collectively refers to the various dialects and varieties of American English originating in the New England area. Much of New England once spoke the "Yankee dialect", many of whose accent features still remain in the eastern half of New England. In fact, one common linguistic division of New England is into Eastern New England English and Western New England English (particularly based on "R-dropping" in the former but not the latter)—a trend begun with the 1939 Linguistic Atlas of New England. This trend often continues with current linguistic studies, including the 2006 Atlas of North American English (ANAE), which further argues for a division between Northern New England English and Southern New England English (especially on the basis of the cot–caught merger and /ɑːr/ fronting). At times, the ANAE also categorizes New England accents into four combinations of the above, simply defined as follows:

Some native English speakers in Connecticut and Vermont, northern New Hampshire, and western Massachusetts, as well as some younger people throughout New England, are moving closer towards a "General American" accent, some due to their historical locations and others due to recent dialect levelling. According to Labov, there are various New England Englishes. Researcher Charles Boberg lists the possibilities of several dialectal divisions of New England.

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