Chapter 5 examples
Felicity Cox
Cambridge University Press, 2012.
5.2.2 Aspiration and release of oral stops
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pay
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tea
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car
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plough
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press
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pew
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tray
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twice
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click
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cry
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cute
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my train
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might rain
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may dread
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made red
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spit
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stack
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scar
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splay
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stripe
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squeak
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carbonaceous
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helicopter
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potato
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collect
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percolator
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procrastinate
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cretaceous
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platonic
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Syllable and word final (VC) oral stops
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map
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squeak
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tired
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wink
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fade
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jog
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Spirantised /t/
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Pete
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great
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bite
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Unreleased /t/
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act
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robbed
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Preglotalisation
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clock
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dessert
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dollop
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Nasal release
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button
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sadden
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happen
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Lateral release
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cattle
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lightly
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middle
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Bradley |
5.2.3 Variants of /t/
Flapping
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writer
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shutter
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cotton
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cattle
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bottle
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bottom
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faulty
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laughter
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Nasal taps
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hunter
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ninety
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Glottal stops
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button
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cotton
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butler
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lighthouse
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not now
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Glottal stops as hiatus fillers
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the elephant
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to eat |
5.2.4 Devoicing
Devoicing of oral stops, fricatives and affricates
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cab
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phase
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loathe
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lunge
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Devoicing of approximants following voiceless fricatives
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Fred
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sweep
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smack
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my snow
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mice know
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go shrug
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gauche rug
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you throw
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youth row |
5.2.5 Assimilation of velar oral stops
Velar fronting
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keen
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cute
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geese
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Velar retraction
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caught
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gaudy |
5.2.6 Assimilation of alveolar consonants
Alveolar to labiodental nasals before [f] and [v]
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circumference
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home front
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infant
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in vain
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Alveolar to dental before dentals
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tenth
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ten things
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eighth
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out there
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wealth
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Alveolar to postalveolar before postalveolars
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try
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dry
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enrol
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Alveolar to palatal before /j/
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onion
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union
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on your own |
5.2.7 Syllabic consonants
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middle
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sudden
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cattle
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muzzle
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often
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cushion
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Assimilation creating syllabics
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happen
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cotton gown
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wagon
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Non-syllabic
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salmon
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linen
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melon |
5.2.8 Clear and dark realisations of /l/
Clear /l/
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leaf
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law
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black
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Dark /l/
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feel
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field
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feel fine
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Syllabic /l/
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table
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muddle
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Gatling
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Catalan
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Before a morpheme boundary - dark /l/
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feeling
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sellout
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Before /j/ - dark /l/
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value
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million
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After a morpheme boundary - clear /l/
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delight
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dandelion
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Vocalised /l/
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Velarised
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Vocalised
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milk
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noodle |
5.2.9 Allophones of /h/
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ahead
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head
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huge
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Hugh |
5.2.10 Gemination
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some mothers
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some others
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start time
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star time |
5.2.11 Labialisation
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sweep
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soup |
5.3.1 Coarticulation and dialect effects
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hand
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bell
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feud
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pool |
5.3.2 Prelateral contexts
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dole
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foal
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old
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hole
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doll
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dole
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polish
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Polish
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goalie (dark /l/)
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slowly (clear /l/)
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pool
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school |
5.3.3 Nasalisation
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ant
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luna
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pint |
5.3.4 Allophones of /eː/and /ɪə/
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care
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caring
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hear
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hearing |
5.3.6 Allophonci vowel length
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heart
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hard
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cut
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cud
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bed
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bared
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bud
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bard
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The bad-lad split
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pad
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cad
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lad
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had
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mad
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sad
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bad
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glad |
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