Re: USAGE: Voiced/voiceless stops in English, was: Re: Pronouncing Tokana...
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 5, 2000, 11:47 |
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At 20:15 +0000 4.2.2000, And Rosta wrote:
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>First, it occurs only 'foot internally' -- that is, where the preceding
>syllable is stronger than the following, e.g. "get off/away/out" /ger .../
>"shut up" /SUrUp/. I can't think of examples of it happening word-medially.
>Possibly I have mischaracterized the constraint, and it is more like t > r
>following a lax vowel, but [@r\O:l] sounds totally out to me. I suspect,
>furthermore, that t > r is lexically conditioned, i.e. its applicability is
>contingent on the lexical identity of the word containing the /t/.
Some kinds of Swedish have a rule whereby d > r when words from a certain
set of pronouns/adverbs/determiners (historically equivalent to the engl
words with initial /D/!) are cliticized. Personally I detest this usage,
but hey, that's just because my idiolect lacks that rule! :-)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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