Filling the Gap: English Tense Vowel plus Final /s/  

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Iverson, Gregory K. ; Salmons, Joseph C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of English Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 33 no. 3 (Sep. 2005), page 207-221.
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Native-stock English/s/ normally derives from sk (Old English fisc > fish), a change dating to ca. 1100, at which time tense vowels were still absent before tautosyllabic consonant clusters. Though sequences of lax vowel plus final /s/ have become common via old loans (push < French pousser) and coinages (posh), tense vowel plus final /s/ sequences remain rare, chiefly because of the absence of a source in Old English. Today, these sequences convey either an affective, onomatopoeic quality (sheesh, swoosh) or represent modem borrowings for rather esoteric foreign concepts or entities (cartouche, gauche) or proper nouns like (Lyndon) Laroche. Dialectal vowel tensing notwithstanding (cf. Midlands p[u:]sh), there is but one ordinary English word with tense vowel plus /s/ without special connotation, leash, yet even that is of Anglo-Norman origin. We argue here that the character of the particular gap with English coda /s/ following tense vowels is phonologically accidental rather than systematic: not only are its contemporary but fading remnants accidental, but the progressive process of the removal of this gap over the course of the history of English is noteworthy for just how systematic it has been, with the result now that words showing long vowel plus final /s/ are increasingly common and decreasingly exotic.

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