Diphthongs versus monophthongs in English
- We present evidence for the analysis of the vowels in English <say> and <so> as biphonemic diphthongs /ɛi/ and /əu/, based on neutralization patterns, regular alternations, and foot structure. /ɛi/ and /əu/ are hence structurally on a par with the so called “true diphthongs” /ɑi/, /ɐu/, /ɔi/, but also share prosodic organization with the monophthongs /i/ and /u/. The phonological evidence is supported by dynamic measurements based on the American English TIMIT database. Calculations of F2-slopes proved to be especially suited to distinguish the relevant groups in accordance with their phonologically motivated prosodic organizations.
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| Author: | Renate Raffelsiefen, Anja Geumann |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-71717 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18452/18805 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the conference on phonetics & phonology in German-speaking countries (P&P 13) |
| Publisher: | Leibniz-Zentrum allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS); Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Editor: | Malte Belz, Susanne Fuchs, Stefanie Jannedy, Christine Mooshammer, Oksana Rasskazova, Marzena Żygis |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2018 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/02/26 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Ressource: | TIMIT |
| Ressource: | PRAAT |
| Tools: | R |
| GND Keyword: | Diphthong; Englisch |
| First Page: | 157 |
| Last Page: | 160 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 420 Englisch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Sprache im 20. Jahrhundert. Gegenwartssprache |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Phonetik / Phonologie |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 Deutschland |