New England Dialect
New England Dialect New England Dialect is spoken in the north-east corner of the United States, specifically in the eastern strip of the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont and more or less in the entire territory of New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island. The city with most prominent features of this dialect is Boston, which is why the New England speech is also called the Boston or Harvard accent. The New England Dialect was the first recognizable U. ... dialect and also the first one honored with a name. ... Within the New England region there are a lot of dialectal differences and numerous pronunciation variations, and the traditional speech is constantly being influenced by the speech of the majority of the United States population, which falls into the GenAm linguistic group.