... Sotillo, C F 3– 4, 94 sound, and meaning, united in the mental lexicon 91–3 type of, and place of occurrence 12 sound changes, directionality of 115 prediction of 115–16 sounds, and meaning 1, ... 20, 37 obstruents, devoicing ofEnglish oral no voicing in final 61 reduction of closure for 27–9 syllabic 24–5 voiceless as the unmarked case 31 Obusek, C J 104 of ’, as a weak and strong form ... speech 15 (table 2.1) interpretation of 83 language-specific 3– 4, 13 in mother–child interaction 118 perceptual consequences of 13 processes in English 19–48 rate of speech and 11–13, 17 in scripted...
... gestures in English /P,T,K/ Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences V, 50–3 Cruttenden, A (2001) Gimson’s Pronunciation ofEnglish Arnold Cutler, A (1995) Spoken word ... recognition ofspoken words with variable representations In D Duez (ed.), SoundPatternsof Spontaneous Speech La Baume les Aix, 83–92 130 Bibliography Cutler, A and Norris, D (1988) The role of strong ... Duez (ed.), SoundPatternsof Spontaneous Speech (SPOSS) Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Aix en Provence, 69–82 Vaux, B (2000) Flapping in English Linguistic Society of America paper,...
... teachers ofEnglish who had achieved a high score on an English prociency test They had more contact with each other than with native speakers of English, though their course was delivered in English ... direction of simplicity, naturalness, or unmarkedness Bailey (1972: 36) says, the patternsof a language are the cumulative results of natural, unidirectional changes and (p 37) the directionality of ... scope of change for each of the sister languages, it is more than coincidence that it found its way into the standard system of each of them As Dressler (p 230) puts it, The appearance of independence...
... be achieved by a little bit of each of these, a moderate amount of any two of these, or a lot of one Massaro’s model allows for tradeoffs of this sort as well as tradeoffs involving different sensory ... an artefact of the interruption of word-final coarticulation Approximately 35 per cent of them were identified not at the presentation of the next word, but later still The mean number of subsequent ... all? Theories of word perception are largely proposed by psychologists, who recognize the acoustic/phonetic aspects ofsound but who (pace those cited below) not consider the place of phonology...
... suggests that a → b, we often find, phonetically, cases of a, b, and a rainbow of intermediate stages, some of which cannot be detected by ear They suggest that accents of the same language can ... Nolan and Cobb, 1994) Much of the research was aimed at describing the accent used by natives of Cambridge, and results were often congruent with those reported in chapter of this book: CSPs fell ... between the sides of the tongue and the edge of the palate near the molars (figure 4.1a) The molar contact, while not a typical part of a phonetic description, is a normal consequence of a raised tongue...
... be impossible to list all of the work done on varieties ofspokenEnglish in the sociolinguistic literature, most of which is impressionistic Too many descriptions ofEnglish accents to mention ... accents of British English and is in the process of developing a composite phonological theory Lodge (1984) assumes ‘that English is subject to a number of widespread phonological processes Many of ... ofEnglish Brown (1977, 1996) reports having heard a large number of the processes discussed in chapter in the speech of newscasters Among these are schwa absorption, intervocalic weakening of...
... unmonitored speech from the accents ofEnglish covered here Attempts at Phonological Explanation 49 Attempts at Phonological Explanation Since the beginning of the study ofsound systems, phonologists ... acquisition of language, like acquisition of other skills, is a process of suppressing some of the behaviour which is present in all normal humans For example, young babies can and make every vowel sound ... probabilities of application of a particular rule are a feature of an accent group rather than an individual The relationship between the language behaviour of a community and the mental grammar of an...
... is unusual Dalby (1984) stresses the importance of this distinction in English casual speech processes In English, the type of cluster allowed is, of course, different initially and nally: barring ... Conversational English 35 the word of as [vv] or even [wv], it is typically reduced to [v] when followed by a consonant: lots of apples, [ltsvvcổp;z] but lots of jobs [ltsvcubz] The weak and strong forms of ... decreasing the number of articulated consonant clusters While it is claimed that there is a spectrum of different realizations of syllable-nal / l / in some accents ofEnglish so that l vocalizes...
... allows us to use the sound system of our native language, we must also think of it in terms of perception In this framework, we can ask how knowledge of variability in a sound system is acquired ... against our very simplistic view of fast speech deletion is that there are very distinct patternsof reduction in connected speech, related to type ofsound and place of occurrence If one were simply ... for World Englishes and (2) Wells Accents ofEnglish (1982) runs to three volumes There are hundreds of varieties which can legitimately 20 Processes in Conversational English be called English, ...
... SoundPatternsofSpokenEnglish Chapter begins by noting that most people arent aware of the sounds of language This book is written by one of those annoying people ... they say it I dedicate it to fellow sound anoraks and to others interested in spoken language, with a hope that they will nd it useful Sound PatternsofSpokenEnglish Linda Shockey â 2003 by Linda ... prior permission of the publisher First published 2003 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shockey, Linda SoundpatternsofspokenEnglish / Linda Shockey...
... that are potentially useful in the understanding ofspoken English, pitch and pause information have received the most attention due to ease of measurement and their relative importance (Cruttenden ... constructions Section shows the implementation of the parser SYSTEM OVERVIEW Our work is aimed at the construction of a prototype system for the understanding ofspoken requests to an electronic directory ... all the rules of the form A -> B C to the form A -> B Link C, and add constraints to the rules application in terms of the value of the =breaking indices" based on relative duration of phonetic...
... infer that these sounds are reliably parts of the system ofEnglish sounds We shall also observe that there are certain sounds one can make that are not part of the system ofEnglish sounds They are ... relatedness (or lack of relatedness) of particular sounds, as these occurred as part of the structure of English, and we could also study how these same sounds, or classes of sounds, were distributed ... daily basis you make many sounds that are not parts of the phonology of your variety ofEnglish Can you give any examples of such sounds? 22 Examples might be the soundof disapproval you make...