The Even Yearbook 12 (2016)
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volume 12 (2016)
pages 47–56
author Márton Jánosy
title Vowel breaking in today’s English
keywords breaking, schwa epenthesis, liquids, glides, consonant clusters, CuBE, SSBE
abstract Conservative SSBE and Current British English differ in the distribution of pre-liquid schwas. I argue that in the current state of the language, synchronic analyses can benefit from treating instances of pre-liquid schwa insertion (a.k.a ‘breaking’) as the resolution of blocked CC clusters.
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