A comparative acoustic study of Australian English fricated /t/: assessing the Irish (English) link
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This paper compares the acoustic characteristics of fricated realisations of /t/ in Australian English with /s/ and /S/. Australian English fricated /t/, like Irish English slit-/t/, shows similarities with /S/ rather than with /s/, whereas Middlesbrough English fricated /t/ is closer to /s/ (Jones and Llamas 2003). These findings raise the possibility that, rather than arising as an independent development from widely occurring casual speech processes, Australian English fricated /t/ could have its origins in the Irish English speech of many immigrants to Australia in the 1800s.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006