LINB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: New Zealand English, Newfoundland English, Canadian Raising
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Major dialect features - consonants: presence of /h/: In the past, english /h/ appeared in onset clusters. In other dialects such as irish english and scottish english: which and witch are distinct, /hj/ clusters are allowed, /h/ can occur independently in an onset. For example, car /ka: non-rhotic dialects include. Vernacular english (aave): some non-rhotic dialetcs have a linking / /, which is when a word has a vowel that is in the coda and then a vowel is the onset of the next word. Non- rhotic speakers insert the / / between the two vowels. In rhotic dialects, / / occurs in the coda position: rhotic dialects include, canadian. In scottish english, the rhotic becomes a tap or trill. /t/ is realized as a voiced alveolar tap / / in. In rp, /t/ is glottalized or becomes a glottal stop. Major dialect features vowels: mid-tense vowels: In ce, mid-tense vowels are realized as diphthongs.
