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Descriptive Grammar of English Part 1: Phonetics and Phonology. dr Iwona Kokorniak (with contribution from dr Jarosław Weckwerth ) 20th December 200 8. Allophones: Examples to consider. Allophones: Examples to consider. Allophones: Examples to consider. Allophones: Examples to consider.
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Descriptive Grammarof EnglishPart 1:Phoneticsand Phonology dr Iwona Kokorniak (with contribution from dr Jarosław Weckwerth) 20thDecember 2008
Allophonic processes • Different allophones of the same phoneme • Usually within the word, but also across word boundaries
Casual speech (fast speech) processes • = phonostylistic processes • Speakers tend to make their pronunciation easier and faster • On the phonostylistic level • This involves the change of phonemes • Different phonemes as a result • Not just different realizations of phonemes (=allophones)
Casual speech processes • Assimilation • Place of articulation • (Manner of articulation) • (Voicing) • Elision • Liasion
Surprises of connected speech: Polish • grat /græt/ • grad /græd/
Assimilation • A phoneme may be realised differently as a result of being close to some other phoneme belonging to a neighbouring word • Principle the same as in coarticulation • But results in phonemic change
Assimilation • In Polish, mainly voicing assimilation • From right to left – regressive assimilation
Regressive assimilation • regressive/ anticipatory assimilation -if Cf (consonant final) becomes more like Ci (consonant initial) then we have to do with progressive assimilation; • The influence comes from Ci:Cf │< Ci
Progressive assimilation • progressive/ perserverative –if Ci (consonant initial) becomes more like Cf (consonant final) then we have to do with progressive assimilation; influence comes from Cf │>Ci
Assimilation • We distinguish assimilation of: • place of articulation • manner of articulation • voicing
English assimilation • Huge problem: English doesn’t have much voicing assimilation • It prefers place assimilation
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