“…Acadian French phonology bears many similarities to that of Laurentian French but is nevertheless distinct: see Cichocki (2012Cichocki ( , 2018, Falkert (2010Falkert ( , 2014, Flikeid (1985), King and Ryan (1989), Lucci (1972), andRyan (2007). Acadian French has conserved the oppositions that characterize Laurentian French, with the exception of the nasal vowels: many regions show a merger between the two back vowels ([ɑ] and [ɔ]), particularly in open stressed syllables, as well as between the two front vowels ([ɛ] and [oe]); see Lucci (1972, pp.…”