Glottalization and linking /r/ in british english
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Universidad de Murcia
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- Victoria Marrero Aguiar (coord.)
- Eva Estebas Vilaplana (coord.)
Editorial: UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
ISBN: 978-84-697-7855-5
Ano de publicación: 2017
Páxinas: 98-101
Tipo: Capítulo de libro
Resumo
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.