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Birth Name:

Jack Chambers (linguist)

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Jul 12, 1938

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Grimsby, Ontario, Canada

Age:

85

Zodiac Sign:

Cancer

Astrology Data:

Sun

19°

Can

38'

About Jack Chambers (linguist)

J. K. "Jack" Chambers (born 12 July 1938 in Grimsby, Ontario) is a Canadian linguist, and a well-known expert on language variation and change, who has played an important role in research on Canadian English since the 1980s; he has coined the terms "Canadian Raising" and "Canadian Dainty", the latter used for Canadian speech that mimics the British, popular till the mid-20th century. He has been a professor of linguistics at the University of Toronto since receiving his a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 1970. He has also been a visiting professor at many universities worldwide, including Hong Kong University, University of Szeged, Hungary, University of Kiel in Germany, Canterbury University in New Zealand, the University of Reading and the University of York in the UK. He is the author of the website Dialect Topography, which compiles information about dialectal variation in the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada.

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Categories related to Jack Chambers (linguist): Living people, Ontario, July 12 births, Linguists from Canada, University of Toronto faculty, 1938 births, Sociolinguists, Canadian academic biography stubs, People from Grimsby, Academics of the University of York