Vague eggs and tags: Prevelar merger in Seattle

IF 1.4 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language Variation and Change Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI:10.1017/S0954394521000028

Valerie Freeman

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract This study describes prevelar merger, the raising of low-front /æ, ɛ/ and lowering of mid-front /e/ before the voiced velar /ɡ/, in Seattle, Washington. In the most advanced part of this change in progress, all twenty speakers (age 18–62, half men, half women, all white) produced /ɛɡ/ and /eɡ/ (beg, vague) as upgliding diphthongs merged in F1 and F2 directly between their nonprevelar counterparts (dress, face). /æɡ/ (bag) was also diphthongal, but its height varied between speakers, with middle-aged men showing near-complete three-way merger with beg-vague and younger speakers raising less, suggesting reversal or avoidance of this component. Previous work lacked information about vague and thus described bag- and beg-raising as failing to reach the height of nonprevelar face. This study revealed that vague is lowered, creating a merger target for both raised beg and bag within a separate diphthongal prevelar subsystem.

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模糊的鸡蛋和标签：西雅图的Preverar合并

摘要本研究描述了华盛顿州西雅图市的前合并，即在浊音velar之前提高低锋/æ，/和降低中锋/e/。在这一变化的最高级阶段，所有20位演讲者（年龄18-62岁，一半是男性，一半是女性，全是白人）都产生了/和/（beg，vague），因为在F1和F2中，向上滑动的双元音直接在非狂欢的对应物（衣服、脸）之间融合/æõ/（bag）也是双元音的，但它的高度因说话者而异，中年男性表现出与beg模糊的几乎完全三元合并，年轻的说话者提高的幅度较小，这表明这一成分被颠倒或回避了。先前的工作缺乏关于模糊的信息，因此将举起袋子和乞讨描述为未能达到非狂欢脸的高度。这项研究表明，模糊性被降低，在一个单独的双元音prevelar子系统中为提高的乞求和袋子创造了合并目标。

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Language Variation and Change Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Language Variation and Change is the only journal dedicated exclusively to the study of linguistic variation and the capacity to deal with systematic and inherent variation in synchronic and diachronic linguistics. Sociolinguistics involves analysing the interaction of language, culture and society; the more specific study of variation is concerned with the impact of this interaction on the structures and processes of traditional linguistics. Language Variation and Change concentrates on the details of linguistic structure in actual speech production and processing (or writing), including contemporary or historical sources.