Glottalization and linking /r/ in british english
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Jose A. Mompean [1]
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[1] Universidad de Murcia
Universidad de Murcia
Murcia, España
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- Localización: Tendencias actuales en fonética experimental: cruce de disciplinas en el centenario del "Manual de Pronunciación Española" (Tomás Navarro Tomás) : [CIFE 2017 : VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Madrid 22-24/11/17] / coord. por Victoria Marrero Aguiar, Eva Estebas Vilaplana; Silvia Carmen Barreiro Bilbao (col.), Juan María Garrido Almiñana (col.), María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (col.), Nuria Polo Cano (col.), 2017, ISBN 978-84-697-7855-5, págs. 98-101
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
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.
