Re: Emphasis allophonies?

I'd say that's a very USAcentric notion, or at least North-America-centric.  In
my experience, only Americans combine intervocalic(--ish) [t] and [d] into [4].
I haven't ever heard (in person or via a recording) any other 1L or 2L
English-speaker do that.  Some dialects use something like a simultaneous
Glottal/Alveolar, which IMO sounds similar, and getting an Americophone to
distinguish [4] from [t_'] (?) when imitating those dialects appears to be
difficult.

Also, IIRC, emphasised words using [4] use [t] and [d] as indicated
orthographically.  Come to that, it's generally "in carefull speech" more
strictly than "emphasised".

Just my 3.1415 cents...

p

(PS Actually, it may be ['_t] rather than [t_'].  I can't convince myself either
way.)





Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...> on 09/16/99 08:19:20 PM

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----- Original Message -----
From: Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...>
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Subject: Re: Emphasis allophonies?


> Carlos Thompson wrote:
> >
> > One of the features of Hangkerimce is the existence of many allophonies,
> > many of them are caused by sourronding sounds and accentuation, but also
> > there are allophonies caused by the emphasis a morpheme has in the
speech.
> >
> > Are there any natural language that has this kind of allophony present?
> >
>
>         I think I can find a (very restricted) example in French. As you
may
> know, the difference between the front 'a' and the back 'a' has
> disappeared in spoken French during the last 20 years. But I think that
> when a word is emphasized, the difference appears again, especially to
> differentiate homophones (as Steg pointed for Hebbrew) like 'pattes' and
> 'pa^tes'. I've heard it some times, but I think it is disappearing too
> (give us 5 or 10 years and it will have completely disappeared).
I've noticed that when people emphasize English words which use [4]
(alveolar tap) or [d] for /t/, they sometimes use [t] (as in <little>,
usually ["lIdl=] but emphasized ["lItl=]).






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