Intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in British news analytical discourse
The paper aims to study word-internal and word-final patterns (allophones, phoneme substitutes and elisions) for intervocalic canonical /t/ in British English. An acoustic analysis of speech samples received from 6 male subjects (1200 intervocalic /t/-tokens, 200 tokens per speaker – 100 medial and...
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| author | Androsova, Svetlana V. Karavaeva, Veronika G. |
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| description | The paper aims to study word-internal and word-final patterns (allophones, phoneme substitutes and elisions) for intervocalic canonical /t/ in British English. An acoustic analysis of speech samples received from 6 male subjects (1200 intervocalic /t/-tokens, 200 tokens per speaker – 100 medial and 100 final, selected by continuous sampling method from the total of 6 hours of speech) enabled to find three common patterns word-medially (canonical including two-peak ones, taps/flaps, sibilants) and six ones – word-finally (with glottal bursts, weak voiceless and elision added). The results indicate that while word-medial intervocalic glottal burst remains stigmatized, word-final one does not. Neither does it closely correlate with the female gender or young age any more, and it might have become supra-local, supra-gender, and supra-age. Acoustic evidence for both taps and flaps in British English was found. Both of them have continuous voicing, with the first being acoustically closer to stops having a variable duration gap and impulse phase, and the second – closer to approximants demonstrating F-structure, no evidence of occlusion or burst. There was a certain statistically significant speaker-dependent variation in both word-internal and word-final allophones and substitutes. These findings show a high degree of free variation, indicating instability of British Standard Pronunciation. Word-boundary effect was statistically significant for five out of the six subjects. However, the correlation of word-internal and word-final pattern ranks was considerably lower than that between the subjects. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:248632025-02-20T03:20:50Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24863/ Intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in British news analytical discourse Androsova, Svetlana V. Karavaeva, Veronika G. The paper aims to study word-internal and word-final patterns (allophones, phoneme substitutes and elisions) for intervocalic canonical /t/ in British English. An acoustic analysis of speech samples received from 6 male subjects (1200 intervocalic /t/-tokens, 200 tokens per speaker – 100 medial and 100 final, selected by continuous sampling method from the total of 6 hours of speech) enabled to find three common patterns word-medially (canonical including two-peak ones, taps/flaps, sibilants) and six ones – word-finally (with glottal bursts, weak voiceless and elision added). The results indicate that while word-medial intervocalic glottal burst remains stigmatized, word-final one does not. Neither does it closely correlate with the female gender or young age any more, and it might have become supra-local, supra-gender, and supra-age. Acoustic evidence for both taps and flaps in British English was found. Both of them have continuous voicing, with the first being acoustically closer to stops having a variable duration gap and impulse phase, and the second – closer to approximants demonstrating F-structure, no evidence of occlusion or burst. There was a certain statistically significant speaker-dependent variation in both word-internal and word-final allophones and substitutes. These findings show a high degree of free variation, indicating instability of British Standard Pronunciation. Word-boundary effect was statistically significant for five out of the six subjects. However, the correlation of word-internal and word-final pattern ranks was considerably lower than that between the subjects. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2024 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24863/1/TT%2013.pdf Androsova, Svetlana V. and Karavaeva, Veronika G. (2024) Intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in British news analytical discourse. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 30 (3). pp. 177-192. ISSN 0128-5157 https://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1738 |
| spellingShingle | Androsova, Svetlana V. Karavaeva, Veronika G. Intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in British news analytical discourse |
| title | Intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in British news analytical discourse |
| title_full | Intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in British news analytical discourse |
| title_fullStr | Intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in British news analytical discourse |
| title_full_unstemmed | Intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in British news analytical discourse |
| title_short | Intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in British news analytical discourse |
| title_sort | intervocalic /t/ acoustic patterns in british news analytical discourse |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24863/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24863/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/24863/1/TT%2013.pdf |