t-to-r in West Yorkshire English  

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Broadbent, Judith M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English Language and Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2005 - terbaru) vol. 12 no. 1 (Mar. 2008), page 141-168.
Fulltext: vol12.1;141-168.pdf (179.22KB)

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This article investigates t-to-r inWest Yorkshire (WY) English and traces its course from a productive process in the nineteenth century to a lexically restricted fossil in contemporary WY. Nineteenth-century sources suggest that by the end of that century this process was already in decline. During the course of the twentieth century t-glottalling became a feature of the variety and so this article explores the possibility that as the FREQUENCY OF USE of t-glottalling increased, this would quickly overshadow t-to-r usage. Paradoxically, FREQUENCY OF USE is also responsible for the t-to-r phenomenon manifested today. More specifically, t-to-r remains in a small group of frequent words which are related by phonological shape. As a consequence of their frequency and shape, they have lexical strength and this is why a t-to-r fossil is maintained in WY today.

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