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Reconsidering the variable context
English Today ( IF 1.156 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-02 , DOI: 10.1017/s026607842000019x
Jenny Amos , Jonathan R. Kasstan , Wyn Johnson

Final consonant cluster simplification, or what variationists have traditionally labelled (t, d)-deletion, remains one of the most well studied variables in the analysis of English (e.g. Labov, 2001: 13). In this body of work, (t, d)-deletion refers to the process whereby /t/ or /d/ can be omitted in word final Ct or Cd coda clusters (e.g. last, mind). However, despite the attention paid to this feature of connected speech, very little (if any) focus has been dedicated to the complementary distribution of the coronal stops /t/ and /d/ in monomorphemic final clusters, as well as other phonological influences, such as the effect of intonational boundaries (IBs) on deletion patterns. This has led to a consistent practice of analysing (t, d) as a single linguistic variable, instead of considering the value of their separation, based on both sound linguistic reasoning and empirical evidence. After a brief review of current literature on multivariate analyses of (t, d)-deletion, this paper presents a socio-phonologically oriented research design that has been used to gather data from a peripheral southeastern variety of English. We martial these data to illustrate how (t) and (d) can be modelled as distinct dependent variables that are sensitive to particular factor groups: we focus in particular on the role of IBs in the deletion process.

中文翻译:

重新考虑变量上下文

最终辅音簇简化,或变奏者传统上标记为(t,d)-删除的东西,仍然是英语分析中研究最充分的变量之一(例如Labov,2001:13)。在这组工作中,(t, d)-deletion 是指 /t/ 或 /d/ 可以在词尾 Ct 或 Cd 尾簇中省略的过程(例如最后,注意)。然而,尽管关注了连接语音的这一特征,但很少(如果有的话)关注单音尾音簇中冠状塞 /t/ 和 /d/ 的互补分布,以及其他语音影响,例如语调边界(IBs)对删除模式的影响。这导致了将 (t, d) 分析为单个语言变量的一致实践,而不是基于合理的语言推理和经验证据来考虑它们分离的价值。在简要回顾了当前关于 (t, d) 缺失的多变量分析的文献后,本文提出了一种面向社会语音的研究设计,该设计已被用于从东南部周边的英语品种中收集数据。
更新日期:2020-09-02
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