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19th century sound change in Kent: PRICE
The distribution of PRICE pronunciations by the seven informants. All but one had acquired the new pronunciation [ai] (N). The informant from Appledore in the south east still had the earlier pronunciation [ʌi] (O). The earlier 19th century popular pronunciation … Continue reading
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19th century sound change in Kent: FACE
Figure 1. The distribution of FACE pronunciations. All the informants had acquired the new [ɛi]-like FACE diphthong, indicating this is the earliest of the 19th century sound changes in Kent. All the informants have [ɛi], a new sound change that … Continue reading
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Tagged accents, dialects, Estuary English, Kent, pronunciation, RP, Southern British English, vowels
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19th century sound change in Kent
This page traces ten sound changes that completely changed the character of the regional accent spoken in 19th century Kent Rural locations and years of birth of the seven SED Kentish informants and H G Wells (each in bold italics), … Continue reading
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Vowel articulation: Tongue height and backing
An ever-present issue is tongue height and backness as a reference frame for vowel articulation. This is not new. The inadequacy of height and backness has been well known but largely disregarded for at least 85 years, since Russell (1928, … Continue reading
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Reading Chinese Confirmed as Left Hemisphere Activity
A post by Victor Mair in Language Log today reported research from Taiwan that claims to have settled the controversy regarding the pictorial nature of Chinese writing – are the characters processed in the right hemisphere like other images? Brain … Continue reading
Posted in Chinese, Neurolinguistics, Reading, Writing
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Seasons greetings
Season’s greetings to you all and best wishes for 2016 Orrefors glass, designed by Lena Bergström (clear glass) and Ingegärd Råman (black and red) These are pagan figures who watch over your home at night. They don’t bring presents, that’s … Continue reading
Kent Accent in the 19th Century: BATH
Throughout the 19th century, and presumably back to the time of the TRAP-BATH split, the timbre of the BATH vowel in Kent had been a bright [aː]-like quality, roughly in the vacant central open position on an IPA vowel diagram … Continue reading
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Tagged accents, dialects, Estuary English, Kent, phonetics, phonology, pronunciation, Southern British English, speech acoustics, vowels
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Richard Henry Sandoe 1869-1915
Private Richard Henry Sandoe was reported missing presumed killed near Ypres on 23 Apr 1915. The British army records for the Great War were mostly destroyed in the 1940 London Blitz, and all that remain are the brief summaries published in the 80 volumes … Continue reading
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Tagged Cornwall, Flanders, genealogy, Great War, Remembrance, Sandoe, ww1, Ypres salient
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Halfway to Estuary English: H G Wells
Biologist, author, journalist, H. G. Wells was born in Bromley (Kent, U.K.) in 1866, the youngest son of a professional cricketer and a domestic servant. I’d half expected to hear an example of Estuary English partially modified towards RP, but … Continue reading
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X-ray movie: uvular [ʀ]
A short sequence from an X-ray motion film: Uvular [yʀa] This is a short sequence where a speaker of Southern Swedish is saying [ˈyʀa], broken out from a longer sequence, /ˈfy:ra/, [ˈfəyʀa], fyra, ‘four’. This example is illustrated with every … Continue reading
Posted in Articulation, Cinefluorography, Coarticulation, Consonants, Dialects, Methods, Pronunciation, rhoticity, Swedish, uvular, Vowels
Tagged articulation, consonants, dialects, pronunciation, rhoticity, speech production, Swedish, vowels
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