Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English
A parallel is drawn between the northernmost regions of England represented by Durham and Yorkshire and the transition zone Ouddeken (2016) identifies between voicing and aspiration languages in the Dutch-German dialect continuum. It is argued that, owing to historical changes and dialect contact,...
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A parallel is drawn between the northernmost regions of England represented by Durham and Yorkshire and the transition zone Ouddeken (2016) identifies between voicing and aspiration languages in the Dutch-German dialect continuum. It is argued that, owing to historical changes and dialect contact, the Northern Englishes discussed exhibit hybrid laryngeal systems as a result of being geographically intermediate between Scots in Scotland, which is a voice language similar to Dutch, and mainstream varieties of English spoken more to the south in England (and in most of the rest of the English-speaking world), which are aspiration systems of the German type. We model the emergence of laryngeal systems as the setting of three parameters: (i) whether the laryngeally marked/specified obstruent series contains [voice] (L-system) or [asp] (H-system); (ii) whether the laryngeal prime is able to spread (right-to-left); and (iii) whether the system has pre-obstruent delaryngealisation (POD) (due to which in C1C2, C1 becomes unmarked/underspecified). While spreading L with POD derives voice languages and non-spreading H with no POD derives aspiration languages, two mixed combinations derive the intermediate categories of Durham and Yorkshire (spreading L & no POD and spreading H & no POD, respectively). We also show that all remaining combinations are attested cross-linguistically or else theoretically uninterpretable.
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| spelling | doaj-art-43c0645ad87d479fbf424441f7b336352025-01-21T05:13:45ZengThe John Paul II Catholic University of LublinLingBaW2450-51882022-12-01810.31743/lingbaw.14955Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of EnglishKatalin Balogné Bérces0Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia; Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest A parallel is drawn between the northernmost regions of England represented by Durham and Yorkshire and the transition zone Ouddeken (2016) identifies between voicing and aspiration languages in the Dutch-German dialect continuum. It is argued that, owing to historical changes and dialect contact, the Northern Englishes discussed exhibit hybrid laryngeal systems as a result of being geographically intermediate between Scots in Scotland, which is a voice language similar to Dutch, and mainstream varieties of English spoken more to the south in England (and in most of the rest of the English-speaking world), which are aspiration systems of the German type. We model the emergence of laryngeal systems as the setting of three parameters: (i) whether the laryngeally marked/specified obstruent series contains [voice] (L-system) or [asp] (H-system); (ii) whether the laryngeal prime is able to spread (right-to-left); and (iii) whether the system has pre-obstruent delaryngealisation (POD) (due to which in C1C2, C1 becomes unmarked/underspecified). While spreading L with POD derives voice languages and non-spreading H with no POD derives aspiration languages, two mixed combinations derive the intermediate categories of Durham and Yorkshire (spreading L & no POD and spreading H & no POD, respectively). We also show that all remaining combinations are attested cross-linguistically or else theoretically uninterpretable. https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/14955laryngeal phonologylaryngeal typologyaccents of Englishlaryngeal realismvoice assimilation |
| spellingShingle | Katalin Balogné Bérces Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English LingBaW laryngeal phonology laryngeal typology accents of English laryngeal realism voice assimilation |
| title | Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English |
| title_full | Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English |
| title_fullStr | Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English |
| title_short | Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English |
| title_sort | accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of english |
| topic | laryngeal phonology laryngeal typology accents of English laryngeal realism voice assimilation |
| url | https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/14955 |
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