Contraction of particle の to ん before nouns in colloquial Japanese


I am familiar with contraction of の to ん before です (and variants で, だ, でした
etc) but I noticed that の is also contracted before 家 in spoken set-phrases
like あたしんち and おれんち.

Are there any other instances where の is contracted before some particular
nouns? I remember hearing おれんとこ in some anime/jdrama but I might have
misheard.

Also, are there any dialects that utilize these types of contractions more
frequently than the other colloquial dialects?




[Chakoshi](http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/chakoshi/public.html) to the rescue!
(Chakoshi is a tool for searching both the Aozora and conversational Japanese
corpora at Nagoya University.)

A quick search for a "[noun]ん[noun]" pattern in the conversational corpus
gives 262 results, most of which are what you are asking about. Broken down,
there's actually not much variety in the nouns that follow ん:

> とき (99): 高校 **ん** とき, 研修 **ん** とき, 外出 **ん** とき, …
>
> とこ(ろ) (78): そこ **ん** とこ, こっち **ん** とこ, 今 **ん** とこ, ほか **ん** とこ, …
>
> 中 (62): 頭 **ん** 中, 山 **ん** 中, 電車 **ん** 中, …
>
> ち (11): おれ **ん** ち, おまえ **ん** ち, 人 **ん** ち, …

This contraction is present in both masculine and feminine speech. I can't
think of any other phrases offhand that use ん this way, but I can't say that
means they're not out there. If you can think of some, please put in a
comment.

As far as dialectical variation goes, the Chakoshi corpus [covers a fairly
wide range of speakers](http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/chakoshi/meidai-
chuui.html), but I would have to do a deeper analysis on the results to find
out if there are any trends.




[Chakoshi](http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/chakoshi/public.html) to the rescue!
(Chakoshi is a tool for searching both the Aozora and conversational Japanese
corpora at Nagoya University.)

A quick search for a "[noun]ん[noun]" pattern in the conversational corpus
gives 262 results, most of which are what you are asking about. Broken down,
there's actually not much variety in the nouns that follow ん:

> とき (99): 高校 **ん** とき, 研修 **ん** とき, 外出 **ん** とき, …
>
> とこ(ろ) (78): そこ **ん** とこ, こっち **ん** とこ, 今 **ん** とこ, ほか **ん** とこ, …
>
> 中 (62): 頭 **ん** 中, 山 **ん** 中, 電車 **ん** 中, …
>
> ち (11): おれ **ん** ち, おまえ **ん** ち, 人 **ん** ち, …

This contraction is present in both masculine and feminine speech. I can't
think of any other phrases offhand that use ん this way, but I can't say that
means they're not out there. If you can think of some, please put in a
comment.

As far as dialectical variation goes, the Chakoshi corpus [covers a fairly
wide range of speakers](http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/chakoshi/meidai-
chuui.html), but I would have to do a deeper analysis on the results to find
out if there are any trends.

