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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