English: Vowel chart of Toronto English, showing the
w:Canadian Shift from /ɪ,ɛ,æ/ (kit, dress, trap) towards /ʊ,ʌ,ɑ/ (koot, druss, trop) as well as the
w:cot-caught merger towards a rounded low back vowel /ɒ/ (not a lot → nawt a lawt). /ʊ/ and /ʌ/ normally remain distinct from /ɪ/ and /ɛ/ as the latter are still more front. The positioning of /ɪ/ does not match the source because it is wrong: /ɪ/, as a lax close front vowel, is near-front in all accents of English that do not tense it to [i] - see
Category:Vowel charts of North American English dialects and
Category:Vowel charts of British English dialects. Therefore, a shifted /ɪ/ must be central in this accent, not near-front as shown on the original chart. The latter positioning suggests no shift at all.
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Own work, based on a vowel chart in Tse, Holman (2018) Beyond the Monolingual Core and out into the Wild: A Variationist Study of Early Bilingualism and Sound Change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese, University of Pittsburgh, page 141.
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showing KIT as shifted, according to the intention of the source (which shows the original KIT in the wrong position, i.e. front instead of near-front, it shifts to central not near-front)