Labov on vowel shifts

[Paul Johnston]

I've heard that from people from London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester myself.  It goes with the /t/ > /ts/ territory.

Paul Johnston
On Aug 28, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:

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> In at least one speaker, I've heard the affrication with a voiced coronal: She pronounced "body" [bOdzi].
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> On Aug 28, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at WMICH.EDU> wrote:
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>> A lot of British dialects can have affrication there, particularly if the speaker is trying to avoid a glottal stop.  The affrication is rather unusual for Trudgill's native Norfolk, but it can occur there.  In Liverpool, you'd even have a cacuminal [s] there in this position.
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>> On Aug 28, 2012, at 7:52 AM, W Brewer wrote:
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>>> MN: <<<Whud Jew join? (different phonological process)>>>
>>> WB: I remember checking out the UCLA chess club, but have no recollection
>>> of what happened. My fondest memories were of the Santa Rosa CA chess club
>>> in the early '70s, until they inexorably succumbed to Fisher mania, which
>>> forced out all us potzers.
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>>> LH: <<< Peter Trudgill . . . named after a popular snack food of Italian
>>> origin.>>>
>>> WB: What? Pizza Trudgill? What sort of topping did he have? Some wicked
>>> affrication there.
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