10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTVOCALIC»
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postvocalic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
postvocalic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Studies in Early Modern English
Loss. of. postvocalic. r. : Were. the. orthoepists. really. tone-deaf? Michael.
Windross. \. Introduction. The evolution of the standard language has been one of
the main threads in the historiography of the Early Modern Period. In the case of
the ...
2
Calvert's Descriptive Phonetics
Word Consonant(s) Singleton/Sequence Position Ed [ed] /d/ Singleton
Postvocalic said [sed] /a/ Singleton Prevocalic /d/ Singleton Postvocalic sled [sled
] /si/ Sequence: blend Prevocalic sleds [sled/] /dz/ Sequence: blend Postvocalic
sledding ...
Pamela G. Garn-Nunn, James M. Lynn, 2011
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Introducing Sociolinguistics
the sentences contained words with postvocalic (r), others had none. As these
were taken from the reading passage, subjects were already familiar with the
material. All subjects aged between 18 and 39 agreed in their tacit positive
evaluation ...
4
Race and the Rise of Standard American
Until the early modern period, the English language had both prevocalic and
postvocalic continuant /r/. It was either constricted, trilled, or an alveolar flap that
had the quality of a current British stage pronunciation of /r/ in very. In the article ...
Thomas Paul Bonfiglio, 2002
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Essentials for Speech-language Pathologists
TABLE 8-4 Phonological processes Process Syllable reduction M ultisyllabicity
Postvocalic singleton deletion Prevocalic singleton consonant deletion
Intervocalic singleton consonant deletion Consonant sequence reduction
Consonant ...
Betsy Partin Vinson, 2001
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Eliciting Sounds: Techniques and Strategies for Clinicians
Among speech pathologists and many linguistic phoneticians, it is traditional to
use different symbols for pre- and postvocalic /r/. In prevocalic position, the
symbol used is that for“consonantal” /r/. In postvocalic or syllabic positions, the
symbol ...
Wayne Secord, Suzanne Boyce, JoAnn Donohue, 2007
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Black English and the Mass Media
Absence of the Postvocalic [r]. This feature is characteristic not only of West
African languages and American Black English, but of several regional American
dialects as well, and is a major indicator in the mass media of Black English.
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Teaching Pronunciation: A Reference for Teachers of English ...
Compare: /a/ dot/doll /A/ duck/dull /a/ bought/ball /ow/ coat/coal /o/ wood/wool /uw
/ tooth/tool /ay/ my/mile /aw/ how/howl /ay/ boy/boil In these contexts, the
postvocalic final /l/ sometimes assumes an /u/-like quality for native speakers of
some ...
Marianne Celce-Murcia, Donna M. Brinton, Janet M. Goodwin, 1996
Thus, there is a postvocalic r in the speech of Bristol, with considerable
retroflexion (Hughes and Trudgill. 1979: 47). The situation can be generalized in
this way. The further west one goes, the more widespread is the r-fullness and
the higher ...
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Social Dialectology: In Honour of Peter Trudgill
The linguistic changes captured here in their terminal process were the cases of
intervocalic /r/ in the word para and consonant permutation (r > l). However, the
standard form of the postvocalic /l/ and /r/ variables in word-final position were not
...
David Britain, Jenny Cheshire, 2003
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSTVOCALIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
postvocalic is used in the context of the following news items.
The Scottish Accent Is Dying Out, And It Is The BBC's Fault
“We have been focusing on the postvocalic R in Scottish English, which seems to be weakening and might be in the process of disappearing ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
Sassenach accent flattens Scots' Rs
... BBC broadcasters who adopt English pronunciations. To use the technical term for the vanishing “R”, it is the battle of “postvocalic rhoticity”. «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
The Scottish accent is dying out
“We have been focusing on the postvocalic R,” as in car, farm, sort, share etc., “in Scottish English, which seems to be weakening and might be ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
Do you 'cuss' your stars when you go 'bust'?
In some Germanic languages, postvocalic r tends to disappear altogether. In British English, it seems to have merged with preceding vowels ... «OUPblog, Sep 12»
The Oddest English Spellings, Part 20
... the situation in English changed, and vowels became indivisible, with their duration depending on how the postvocalic consonant adhered to ... «OUPblog, May 12»
