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td-deletion in British English: New evidence for the long-lost morphological effect
Language Variation and Change ( IF 1.067 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-06 , DOI: 10.1017/s0954394520000034
Maciej Baranowski , Danielle Turton

This paper analyzes td-deletion, the process whereby coronal stops /t, d/ are deleted after a consonant at the end of the word (e.g., best, kept, missed) in the speech of 93 speakers from Manchester, stratified for age, social class, gender, and ethnicity. Prior studies of British English have not found the morphological effect—more deletion in monomorphemic mist than past tense missed—commonly observed in American English. We find this effect in Manchester and provide evidence that the rise of glottal stop replacement in postsonorant position in British English (e.g., halt, aunt) may be responsible for the reduction in the strength of this effect in British varieties. Glottaling blocks deletion, and, because the vast majority of postsonorant tokens are monomorphemic, the higher rates of monomorpheme glottaling dampens the typical effect of deletion in this context. These findings indicate organization at a higher level of the grammar, while also showing overlaid effects of factors such as style and word frequency.

中文翻译:

英式英语中的 td-deletion:久违的形态学效应的新证据

本文分析时间- 删除,即在词尾的辅音之后删除冠塞 /t、d/ 的过程(例如,最好的,保留的,错过的) 在来自曼彻斯特的 93 位演讲者的演讲中,按年龄、社会阶层、性别和种族进行分层。先前对英式英语的研究没有发现词素效应——单词素中更多的缺失薄雾比过去时错过——在美式英语中很常见。我们在曼彻斯特发现了这种影响,并提供了证据表明在英式英语中,声门塞替代在后音位置的增加(例如,停下,阿姨) 可能是造成这种影响在英国品种中强度降低的原因。Glottaling 阻止删除,并且由于绝大多数 postsonorant 标记是单词素的,因此更高的单词素声门化率会抑制这种情况下删除的典型效果。这些发现表明语法的更高层次的组织,同时也显示了风格和词频等因素的叠加效应。
更新日期:2020-05-06
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