The literature on Canadian English provides evidence of distinct dialect regions. Within this landscape, the province of British Columbia is set apart as a sub-region in the west, yet information concerning “local” English is notably skewed toward a single urban setting, Vancouver. To assess and extend the generalizability of prior observations, this paper targets the city of Victoria and situates the results from a large-scale sociolinguistic investigation within the model of the typical (western) Canadian city presented in Boberg (2008, 2010). We consider vocalic features characterized as either General Canadian or distinctively Western Canadian. We also consider “yod” (i.e., the presence of an onglide in student, tune, and the like), a conservative feature that is obsolescing across the nation. Our results support Boberg’s (2008, 2010) observations while positioning Victoria as both innovative—participating in national changes—and conservative—joining certain changes relatively recently and retaining older dialect features. Such results enable us to trace leveling to national and more local dialect patterns, while also reminding us of sociohistorical forces in the formation of dialects.

中文翻译：

---

加入西部地区：维多利亚的社交语变

加拿大英语文献提供了不同方言区域的证据。在这个景观中，不列颠哥伦比亚省被划分为西部的一个子区域，但有关“本地”英语的信息明显偏向于单一的城市环境，温哥华。为了评估和扩展先前观察的普遍性，本文以维多利亚市为目标，并将大规模社会语言学调查的结果置于 Boberg (2008, 2010) 提出的典型（西部）加拿大城市模型中。我们考虑以加拿大人或独特的加拿大西部人为特征的声音特征。我们还考虑“yod”（即在学生、曲调等中存在 onglide），这是一种在全国范围内过时的保守特征。我们的结果支持 Boberg (2008, 2010）观察，同时将维多利亚定位为既创新（参与国家变革）又保守——最近加入某些变化并保留较旧的方言特征。这样的结果使我们能够追踪国家和更多地方方言模式的水平，同时也提醒我们方言形成中的社会历史力量。