Re: THEORY: Question: Bound Morphemes

At 10:20 pm -0500 5/7/99, Nik Taylor wrote:
>"Raymond A. Brown" wrote:
>> And in
>> some English dialects one comes forms like /tapl/ or /Tapl/ (yes - the
>> sounds are voiceless) for standard English /DI'&pl/ "the apple".
>
>Interesting.  I remember reading an excerpt from a legal document in
>Middle English containing the line "The kyng by =FEadvise and assent of
>>the lordes spirituell and temporell ..." (=FE =3D thorn), but I didn't kno=
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>if there were modern examples of that.
>
>Incidentally, I say /D@'?&pl=3D/
Yep - initial /t/ and/or /T/ still survive in some northern English
dialects.  Not living in that part of England, I don't know how much
they're still used among the younger generations, but I suspect they'll
continue for some while.  These sounds do get modified before certain
consonants.  Somewhere I've got notes on this, but I can't remember where I
put them  :=3D(

I was brought up using /DI/ before vowels, but it is not uncommon to hear
/D@/ used in all contexts.  The use of the glottal stop can be heard among
those who say /D@/.  But I think on this side of the pond, the increasingly
common use of the glottal stop as an allophone of /t/ when medial or final,
at least in southern England, militates against its use in other contexts.
Pronunciations like /Dj&pl=3D/ are not uncommon.

Ray.


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