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The Origins and Development of the English Language Chapter 2: The Sounds of
Current English
John Algeo and Thomas Pyles
Michael Cheng National Chengchi University
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Introduction
26 letters in the English alphabet
More than 26 sounds (phonemes) in the English language
a cat, came, calm, any, call, was
[e] baker, day, bait, gauge, mesa, they, neighbor, great
Phonetic alphabet solves this problem
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The Organs of Speech
1-nasal cavity2-lips3-teeth4-aveolar ridge5-hard palate6-velum (soft palate)7-uvula8-apex (tip) of tongue9-blade (front) of tongue10-dorsum (back) of tongue11-oral cavity12-pharynx13-epiglottis14-larynx15-vocal cords16-trachea17-esophagus
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Consonants of Current English
Classified according to – place of articulation (where they are made)– manner of articulation (how they are made)– Voicing– (see interactive flash)
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Consonants of Current English
Historical Stuff:
Similarity between [r] and [l]
Sally/Sarah, Kathleen/Katherine, stella (Latin)/steorra (Old English)
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Consonants of Current English: Dropping [r]
New England, New York City, coastal South, British RP (received pronunciation)Dropped when followed by consonantKept when followed by a vowel, or the next word begins with a vowel– farm, far distance, the distance is far– faring, there is, far away, very, Carolina– ‘arf, cokernut, Eeyore, Marmee
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‘arf, cokernut, Eeyore, Marmee
http://www.superstickershop.com/catalog/images/EeyoreSitting.jpg
https://www.msu.edu/user/steinbr1/pooh/images/disney/eeyore14.gif
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Consonants of Current English: Dropping [r]
Intrusive r
New England, New York City, RP– Have no fear, the fear of it– Have no idea, the idear of it
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Vowels of Current English
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Vowels
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English Vowels and their IPA symbols
IPA symbol Example word(s) IPA symbol Example word(s)
i beat, meet, machine u boot, crude, new
bit, mitt, live book, could, put
e bait, great, play, they o boat, no, sew
bet, said, head ('open o')
bought, caught, coffee*
('ash')
bat, fad, plaid /a
bottle, father, palm (bought, caught, coffee in many
CA dialects)
('caret')
but, son, none, cup ay/aj bite, buy, fly, might
('schwa')
about, focus, sofa* aw/au about, cow, flour
oy/oj boy, coin, Freud
* Schwa appears only in unstressed syllables.The vowel of words like 'bought', 'coffee' varies among dialects. Northeastern American varieties use this one, called 'open o', while most Californians (esp. Southern Californians), use 'ah' (the next one down in the table).
Rubba (2003). Retrieved from http://cla.calpoly.edu/~jrubba/phon/learnipa.html
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Vowel Tongue PositionFront Back
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Dipthongs
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Variant vowel sounds[a], [æ:], [ɨ], [ө], [ɒ]
[a] ask, half, laugh, path (eastern New Eng)
[æ:] cap[kæp]-cab[kæ:b], bat-bad, lack-lag, can (be able) – can (to tin)
[ɨ] in just, children, would ????
[ө] short o sound ????
[ɒ] pot, top, rod, con (slightly rounded in Brit Eng)
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Variant vowel sounds[ɔ], [ɑ], [ɪ], [ɛ]
[ɔ] and [ɑ] caught-cot, taught-tot, dawn-don, gaud-god, pawed-pod (Pittsburg)
Lack of a contrast in a specific environment
[ɪ] and [ɛ] pin-pen, tin-ten, Jim-gem (before nasal in American south)
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Tense vowels are longer than lax vowels
Vowel length is hardly ever a distinguishing factor
can-can, halve-have, balm-bomb, vary-very
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Vowels before [r]
Sound of the vowel changes before [r]– cut-curt– bust-burst– moan-mourn– father-farther
Schwa glide can intrude– near [niər] [n ɪ r]– The time drew néar. The time dréw near.
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Vowels before [r]
Tenseness is not distinct before [r]
nearer-mirror [i] (tense) or [ɪ] (lax)
Fairy-ferry [e] (tense) or [ɛ] (lax)
Touring-during [u] (tense) or [ʊ] (lax)
Lax vowel more common
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Historical vowel merging before [r]
hoarse [o] – horse [ɔ]
Mourning – morning
borne – born
four – for
oar – or
foreword – forward
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Present day merging before [r]
Mississippi Valley and the West
[ɑ], [ɔ], [ɒ]
form – farm
or – are
born – barn
lord – lard
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Stress
[i] [ɪ] [ə] are often used in unstressed syllables
[i] and [ɪ] vary in final position and before another vowel– lucky, happy, city, seedy– various, curiosity, oriel, carrion
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Stress
[ɪ] and [ə] vary before a consonant– [ɪ] bucket, college, elude, illumine– [ə] many Americans starting to prefer [ə] in
these words
Emerging rule: used [ɪ] before velar consonants and [ə] elsewhere – ignore, comic, hoping– stomach, mysterious
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Kinds of Sound Change: Assimilation
Assimilation – Sounds become more alike
Pancake
Spaceship
What is your name?
What’s yer name?
Whacher name? (palatalization)
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Kinds of Sound Change: Dissimilation
Dissimilation – Sounds become less alike– Diphthong [f] replaced by [p]– Chimney [n] replaced by [l]
Complete loss of sound because of proximity to another sounds– caterpillar, Canterbury, reservoir, terrestrial,
southerner, barbiturate, governor, surprised
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Kinds of Sound Change: Elision
Elision – Sounds are omittedWhat is your name? (unstressed vowel in is elided)Aphesis– loss of unstressed initial vowel– about ‘bout
Apheresis – loss of sound from beginning of word– almost ‘most
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Kinds of Sound Change: Elision
Apocope – loss of sound from end of word– child chile
Syncope – loss of sound from middle of word– family fam’ly
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Kinds of Sound Change: Intrusion
Intrusion – Sounds are added
svarabhakti, epenthesis, anaptyxis
Intrusive [ə] often appears between consonants
elm, film
Henry, Dwight, Smyrna
arthritis, athlete
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Kinds of Sound Change: Intrusion
Consonants can be intrusive
warmth warmpth (p inserted)
sense [sɛnts] (t inserted)
length lenkth (k inserted)
Nasal + voiceless fricative
Nasal + stop (vcls) + voiceless fricative
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Kinds of Sound Change: Metathesis
Metathesis: Sounds are reordered
Tax and task originally developed from the same word
[r] frequently metathesizes with an unstressed vowel– produce, perform
A sound and syllable boundary can metathesize– another a whole nother thing
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Causes of Sound Change
Contact with another language– substratum or superstratum theory
Distributing sounds evenly through phonological spaceEase of articulation (assimilation, etc.)– makes it easier to talk faster
Spelling pronunciationsHypercorrection
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Causes of Sound Change
Spelling pronunciations– controller comptroller
Hypercorrection– talkin’, somethin’ chicking, Virging Islands
Overgeneralization– [ž] azure – rajah, cashmere, kosher
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The Phoneme
Regarded as the same sound by speakers of a language
Phonemes are made up of allophones – similar sounds that are not distinctComplementary distribution – allophones only appear in specific environment– after [s] unaspirated [t] occurs but not aspirated [t]
Free variation [t] or [t*] can appear at the end of fight
stone, tone, fight, item, little, matter, bottle, out come
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Differing Transcriptions
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Exercises