Glottalization and linking /r/ in british english

  1. Jose A. Mompean 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Murcia
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    Universidad de Murcia

    Murcia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/03p3aeb86

Book:
Tendencias actuales en fonética experimental: Cruce de disciplinas en el centenario del Manual de Pronunciación Española (Tomás Navarro Tomás)
  1. Victoria Marrero Aguiar (coord.)
  2. Eva Estebas Vilaplana (coord.)

Publisher: UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

ISBN: 978-84-697-7855-5

Year of publication: 2017

Pages: 98-101

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

This paper looks at the use of glottalization in the resolution of hiatus in potential linking /r/ contexts in a corpus of diachronic spoken British English. Potential contexts of linking /r/ were identified and analysed acoustically for the occurrence of a rhotic consonant, the use of glottalization (glottal stops, creaky voice, a combination of these) or pure hiatus. The results show that glottalization is a common strategy in cases where an r-sound is not used in potential linking /r/ cases while pure hiatus is rare. Moreover, the data show that creaky voice is more frequent than true glottal stops and that glottalization sometimes combines with linking /r/ to resolve hiatus. Implications of the results for the understanding of the hiatus-breaking system of English are provided.

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