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SUMMARY:t-glottalling\, flapping and pre-glottalisation in British English
 es: patterns in phonological and social variability - Danielle Turton (Lan
 caster University)
DTSTART:20191205T163000Z
DTEND:20191205T180000Z
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CONTACT:Julia Heine
DESCRIPTION:In accents of British English\, variants of the sound /t/ span
  many forms. Glottal stop replacement\, whereby /t/ is replaced with a glo
 ttal stop [ʔ] in unstressed position (e.g. cat\, water)\, is the most com
 monly studied (e.g. Foulkes & Docherty 1999) and is found across the\nBrit
 ish Isles. Flapping\, whereby /t/ is reduced to an alveolar flap [ɾ]\, is
  more generally associated with American English but is found in various l
 ocations across the British Isles\, albeit at very low rates\, and has bee
 n shown to be a variant inherited from the mother\ncountry\, rather than a
 n American innovation (Minkova 2013). A third variant which resembles both
  of these is the glottalisation pattern found in Tyneside English spoken i
 n Newcastle upon Tyne. Labelled glottal masking or pre-glottalisation\, th
 is process targets /t/s in intervocalic position (e.g. water\, city\; Doch
 erty & Foulkes 1999\, 2005). Phonologically\, then\, the process resembles
  American English flapping\, but is phonetically closer to full glottal st
 op replacement.\n\nThis paper presents data from a range of varieties of E
 nglish in England\, including sociolinguistic corpora from Blackburn in La
 ncashire (Turton 2018)\, Manchester (Baranowski & Turton 2015) and Newcast
 le upon Tyne (Corrigan et al. 2014)\, comparing auditory and acoustic data
  of t-lenition processes in these accents. The phonological distribution o
 f tlenition processes in each variety is compared\, demonstrating that the
  target domain between varieties and between processes is not consistent\,
  but the rates of application found in different contexts reflect the gram
 matical structure of the predicted rules. Overall\, it is argued that the 
 range of patterns makes perfect sense when considering the interaction of 
 phonological structure and variable rules.
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