Studies in English Phonology

Graded Constraints in English Phonology

Seminar on English Phonology

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Phonology in new varieties of English: Hong Kong English diphthongs

Studies of vowels in Hong Kong English (HKE) have revealed that it has diphthongs which are not dissimilar from British English (BrE). However, impressionistically, diphthongs in HKE can and do sound different. This paper looks at two perceptual phenomena: monophthongisation of GOAT; and coda consonant loss in words containing closing diphthongs followed by a geminate alveolar plosive. We indic...

English phonology and an acoustic language universal

Acoustic analyses of eight different languages/dialects had revealed a language universal: Three spectral factors consistently appeared in analyses of power fluctuations of spoken sentences divided by critical-band filters into narrow frequency bands. Examining linguistic implications of these factors seems important to understand how speech sounds carry linguistic information. Here we show the...

Lexical Phonology and the History of English