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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