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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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Tagged accents, articulation, dialects, Kent, pronunciation, RP, Southern British English, vowels
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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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Tagged accents, articulation, phonetics, phonology, pronunciation, vowels
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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
Posted in Accents, Articulation, Consonants, Dialects, English, Kent, Pronunciation, rhoticity, Vowels
Tagged accents, articulation, consonants, dialects, Estuary English, Kent, rhoticity, RP, Southern British English, speech acoustics, vowels
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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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Rhoticity in Lancashire 3: Preston to Colne
This page continues from the first part of this series, which has the introduction, definition of rhoticity, and the report for Area A (Liverpool-Manchester). The report for Area B (Southport, Chorley, Bolton, Rochdale) is here. This page reports Area C … Continue reading
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The Bell vowel model: its acoustic weaknesses
1. The single resonance and two resonance theories. Bell coupled his new vowel model to the then popular single resonance theory, claiming the vowel tone (resonance) depended on the dimensions of the buccal cavity. In Visible Speech (1867:71), he postulated … Continue reading
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