Even Americans pre-aspirate

IF 0.8 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

English World-Wide Pub Date : 2021-05-01 DOI:10.1075/EWW.00065.HEJ

Mísa Hejná, K. Kaźmierski, Wenyu Guo

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Abstract

This paper focuses on a phenomenon known as pre-aspiration, defined as a period of glottal friction found in the sequences of sonorants and phonetically voiceless obstruents, as in hit [hɪht], hat [hæht], hiss [hɪhs], and cash [kæhʃ]. Pre-aspiration has been reported in North American English (Clayards and Knowles 2015); however, there are no systematic studies of pre-aspiration in this part of the English-speaking world. Our study therefore considers the following main questions. 1. Is pre-aspiration present in American English and how frequent is it? 2. Does it vary by region? We also map variation related to speaking task, sex, and a range of language-internal factors. Our analyses of data from the Nationwide Speech Project Corpus (Clopper and Pisoni 2006) confirm that pre-aspiration is a feature of American English, with rates of application reaching between 0–20 percent, depending on the region and the task. Furthermore, the more formal the task, the higher the rate of pre-aspiration application.

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就连美国人也会提前吸气

本文关注的是一种被称为“前吸音”的现象，它被定义为一段时间的声门摩擦，出现在辅音序列和语音上的不发音障碍中，如hit [hæht]， hat [hæht]， hiss [hæ hs]和cash [kæh h h]。在北美英语中有预吸的报道(Clayards and Knowles 2015);然而，在英语世界的这一部分，没有系统的研究前抱负。因此，我们的研究考虑了以下主要问题。1. 美式英语中有前置音吗?频率有多高?2. 是否因地区而异?我们还绘制了与说话任务、性别和一系列语言内部因素相关的变异图。我们对全国语音项目语料库(Clopper and Pisoni 2006)数据的分析证实，预发音是美式英语的一个特征，根据地区和任务的不同，其应用率在0 - 20%之间。此外，任务越正式，预吸应用的比率越高。

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