Final Stop Deletion in American English,
Abstract
Previous studies of word final consonant cluster simplification have shown that /t,d/ deletion is variable and that certain linguistic factors can be distinguished which affect the rate of deletion; for example, deletion is more frequent before a consonant (FIND THEM) than before a vowel (FIND US), and more likely in monomorphemic clusters (FIND THEM) than in bimorphemic clusters (FIN ED THEM). The present study examines this question on the basis of performance data drawn from recordings of conversational style interviews with fifteen adult speakers of various dialects of American English. The data include over 2300 tokens of morpheme and word final base form consonant + /t,d/ clusters.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA024919
Entities
People
- Helene Neu