Phonetic parallels between the close-mid vowels of Tyneside English: Are they internally or externally motivated?
Phonetic parallels between the close-mid vowels of Tyneside English: Are they internally or externally motivated?
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泰恩赛德英语中近元音之间的语音相似之处：它们是内部动机还是外部动机？
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10.1017/s0954394500121040
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发表时间：
2000
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1
通讯作者：
Dominic Watt
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作者：
Dominic Watt
根据32名讲泰恩赛德英语的成年人的年龄、性别和社会阶层，对泰恩赛德英语(TE)中面部和山羊元音变体的分布进行了评估。此外，我们还考察了语音语境和说话风格的影响。数据中的模式暗示着方言水平，即本地化的语音变体成为隐性的，并采用更广泛地理区域的典型发音。然而，在这个大的模式中，有证据表明元音之间在不同说话人群体中元音变体的相对比例是平行的。研究表明，维持基本音系对称结构的压力引导着这一过程。在此基础上讨论了Labov(1991,1994)的链移位原理。然而，有人认为，通过考虑每个变体的社会意义，而不是将变体作为抽象音系范畴的社会中性表达，可以更合理地解释数据中的模式。
The distribution of variants of the face and goat vowels in Tyneside English (TE) is assessed with reference to the age, sex, and social class of 32 adult TE speakers. The effects of phonological context and speaking style are also examined. Patterns in the data are suggestive of dialect leveling, whereby localized speech variants become recessive and pronunciations typical of a wider geographical area are adopted. Within this broad pattern, however, there is evidence of parallelism between the vowels in terms of the relative proportions of their variants across speaker groups. It is suggested that pressure to maintain the symmetrical structure of the underlying phonological system is guiding this process. Labov's (1991, 1994) principles of chain shift are discussed in this connection. However, it is argued that the patterns in the data are more plausibly explained by considering the social significance of each variant instead of making reference to variants as socially neutral expressions of abstract phonological categories.