Unstressed vowels in English: Distributions and consequences

Autor: Péter Szigetvári
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Acta Linguistica Academica. 69:4-16
ISSN: 2560-1016
2559-8201
DOI: 10.1556/2062.2021.00431
Popis: Following Trager & Bloch (1941), I argue that diphthongs in English are short vowels followed by a glide, that is, a consonant (Szigetvári 2016). In the present paper, I bring further evidence for this claim, based on the distribution of unstressed vowels in British English.
Databáze: OpenAIRE