Language Variation - European Perspectives VIII - Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019
Language Variation - European Perspectives VIII - Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10), Leeuwarden, June 2019
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语言变异 - 欧洲视角 VIII - 第十届欧洲语言变异国际会议 (ICLaVE 10) 论文选录,吕伐登,2019 年 6 月
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10.1075/silv.25.03but
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2021
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Butcher K
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Butcher K
This study revisits the longstanding distinction between /u:/ (moan) and /ʌu/ (mown) in East Anglia, where the Long Mid Mergers that resulted in a singlegoatvowel did not take place. Words such as‘road’and ‘rowed’are therefore not homophonous. Recently, however, this distinction has started to break down. Acoustic analysis of 24 speakers indicates change in apparent time, where a merger by approximation ofmoanandmownis taking place in Lowestoft (northern East Anglia) for working-class speakers. Findings further suggest that a previously reported ongoing merger betweenmoanandgoose, which occurred as a result of a chain shift, was not completed but may have had a hand in deferring themoan/mownmerger in East Anglia over many years.goosefronting is also reported as a change in apparent time.