LL-L "Phonology" 2004.11.23 (12) [E]

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2004.11.23 (03) [E/LS]


Ron wrote:
"In phonology, "liaison," based on the well-known French phenomenon (which
probably affected English), is when any final consonantly becomes the
initial consonant of the following word."

I suppose this phenomenon does not apply to vowels and semi-vowels.
Nottingham English (and other northern English variants) has extraordinarily
strong semi-vowel glides, so that the shibboleth _a jeni jon je_ ("Have you
any on you?") is created. Certainly the only place [r] properly occurs in
Nottingham English is during liaison.

The mention of glottal stops also calls to mind a characteristic feature of
Nottingham English and some other northern English variants that I would
like explained if anyone could, namely the substation of [r] for standard
[d] in sentences like _gor it_ ("Got it").

Go raibh maith agat,

Criostóir.

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