Canadian Raising Puns

So it's bath time. I got the shampoo in my son's (2½) hair. He goes to stand up, and bonks his head into my arm, putting shampoo all over my arm. Without even skipping a beat, he immediately says "oh! Sorry!" And proceeds to try to wipe the shampoo off my arm. He's always been good with his pleases and thank yous, but this was just such a quick, instinctive response, I just had to laugh

(And yes, we are actually Canadian lol)

And the results were pretty...complicated.

TL;DR. I was inspired by a 2016 study by Schellenberg and Ozburn, who found Raising in female opera singers. I was inspired to do the same with pop music (pop icon Avril Lavigne), and conducted a longitudinal analysis over time + compared her to an American singer (Pink, another 00s icon) to quantify the effects of raising!

Hope you enjoy and let me know your thoughts:

https://www.chelseatanchip.com/post/canadian-raising-avril-lavigne-music

I am from Rochester, NY, and I can think of two minimal pairs created by Canadian raising, namely “why’re” vs “wire” and “higher” vs “hire,” where the second words in these pairs are raised. Wouldn’t this imply that Canadian raising is phonemic, at least in some dialects?

I live up North in the Upper Peninsula. We have a huge fishing market here and Canadian Nightcrawlers are in high demand. My small church is considering starting a farm. I've done a lot of research but most of the info and guides are for red worms. Can anyone help with specifics to raising Canadian Nightcrawlers? Do you need deeper bins? Wed like to start fairly large as we have many gas stations that would buy from us instead of importing. Also it gets very cold here. Are the temperature requirements different for Nightcrawlers? We have a 50x50 foot pole barn that isnt heated or insulated, has electric, but maybe if it's worth it could put a wood burner in. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Exactly why is this occurring? Yes I live in Canada. But it's hard to have a conversation over the existence of Canadian Raising or other characteristics of the Canadian accent here without someone flying off the handle. They say ''I don't have a Canadian accent. I sound like I'm from California''. Or the old ''I don't say about with a Canadian accent.. I say it like an American and there is no Canadian accent''.

I'm trying to understand what is up with this.

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According to Wikipedia, words like *sour* were once monosyllabic, but are now pronounced with two syllables /'saʊ.ər/ and rhyme with *tower*. There seems to be a similar process with words like fire, but not in all speakers. I, an L2 English speaker, pronounce it with two syllables.

When I speak English I have Canadian raising of /aɪ/ and incorporate it before voiceless consonants, but also in other environments? It's rare, it doesn't occur in monosyllabic words and it might have to do with morphology. I raise /aɪ/ before a voiced consonant in words like spider, tiger and (disyllabic) fire, but not in hider, liar and higher (and most other words). For some words ending with -ire both pronunciations seem valid, like hire. What's more, Google seems to confirm that some native speakers raise /aɪ/ in these environments too, so it's not just something I made up.

Are hire and higher homophones in your dialect? And is there an all-encompassing rule for where /aɪ/ is raised?

First off: I know just enough about linguistics to be dangerous: I took Intro to Linguistics a few years ago (and loved it!) and I follow a bunch of linguists on twitter. In all probability this question comes down to a lack of understanding of one or more of: minimal pairs, phonemes, or dialects. I've tried my best to use vocab, IPA, etc. that I remember from my class here, please correct me if I got something wrong!

Secondly: I speak an Eastern New England variety of American English, with a very strong case of the first type of Canadian Raising, and with the raised phone ([ʌɪ]) existing in environments beyond the traditional preceding a voiceless consonant, for example, I pronounce spider as [spʌɪɾəɹ] and cider as [sʌɪɾəɹ]

In the last two days I have had two instances, with two different people, where I have misinterpreted what they were saying because they do not have Canadian Raising.

In the first instance, I heard "wider" when they were saying "whiter". Without CR, these are homophones, with it, they are distinct:

In the second instance I heard "rider" and they were saying "writer". Again, homophones without CR, distinct with it:

Both times I straight up assigned the wrong meaning to the word and had to go back and recontextualize the last few seconds of conversation once I'd figured out the issue from the rest of the conversational context.

It seems to me that these are examples of minimal pairs for [aɪ]/[ʌɪ] (at least in my dialect). But does that necessarily make them distinct phonemes? I can't find anywhere online that considers them to be distinct phonemes in any dialect (not that I'm necessarily looking in the right places...)

Any help would be appreciated!