Query Details
| Query Subject: |
American /t/
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| Author: | Dan Faulkner | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Phonetics
Phonology |
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| Subject Language(s): |
English
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| Query: |
Dear LINGUIST,
I am a British English speaker currently working on the pronunciation of General North American English (whatever ''general'' is supposed to mean), and I have a couple of questions regarding the distribution of voiced alveolar taps /D/, glottal stops /?/ and 0 as allophones of phoneme /t/ in an inter-sonorant context. e.g. British English = BE American English = AE (1) HATING (a) BE - / h ei' t i ng / (b) AE - / h ei' D i ng / (2) WINTER (a) BE / w i' n t @ / (b) AE / w i' n @ R / (3) IMPORTANT (a) BE - / i m p oo' t @ n t/ (b) AE - / i m p oo' R ? n t / (c) AE - / i m p oo' R D @ n t / - Is it correct to say that there is no realised stop or tap in (2b)? If so, is it elided because of the preceding alveolar nasal? This would lead to AE realisations such as: ENTITY / e' n @ D ii / QUANTITY / k w aa' n @@ D ii / - Is (3b) or (3c) or neither correct for AE? My (obviously non-native) intuition is that (3b) is correct, and could perhaps lead to a generalisation that the /t/ phoneme is realised as a glottal stop before syllabic /n/. This would lead to realisations such as: POTENT / p ou1 ? n t / rather than / pou1 D @ n t / LATENT / l ei1 ? n t / rather than / l ei1 D @ n t / I realise that lexical stress location is an important factor in the realisation of phoneme /t/ also, but taking that as read, I would be very grateful if someone could correct or verify the above transcriptions/generalisations. I would also be very interested to hear of any good references regarding American pronunciation (is there an American equivalent to ''English Accents and Dialects'' by Highes and Trudgill?). Depending on response, I will publish a summary of all information received. Thankyou very much in advance. Dan Faulkner Tel +44 1908 273 933 Fax +44 1908 273 801 Mail Dan.Faulkner@aculab.com http://www.aculab.com Can anyone recommend a few introductory linguistics books that are in Spanish, for beginners not familiar with linguistics? I think it would be helpful to be able to recommend such books to those of my students whose first language is Spanish, and who have trouble reading about linguistics in English. Note that I'm looking for general linguistics books, not books about the linguistic structure of Spanish. (Though those woud be a good second choice.) Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Johanna Rubba Assistant Professor, Linguistics ~ English Department, California Polytechnic State University ~ San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 ~ Tel. (805)-756-2184 Fax: (805)-756-6374 ~ E-mail: jrubba@polymail.calpoly.edu ~ Home page: http://www.calpoly.edu/~jrubba ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| LL Issue: | 10.26 | |
| Date posted: | 07-Jan-1999 | |
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