Coalescent assimilation across word-boundaries in American English and in Polish English

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dc.contributor.authorKaźmierski, Kamil
dc.contributor.authorWojtkowiak, Ewelina
dc.contributor.authorBaumann, Andreas
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-24T07:27:15Z
dc.date.available2021-03-24T07:27:15Z
dc.date.issued2016-09-30
dc.description.abstractCoalescent assimilation (CA), where alveolar obstruents /t, d, s, z/ in word-final position merge with word-initial /j/ to produce postalveolar /tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ/, is one of the most wellknown connected speech processes in English. Due to its commonness, CA has been discussed in numerous textbook descriptions of English pronunciation, and yet, upon comparing them it is difficult to get a clear picture of what factors make its application likely. This paper aims to investigate the application of CA in American English to see a) what factors increase the likelihood of its application for each of the four alveolar obstruents, and b) what is the allophonic realization of plosives /t, d/ if the CA does not apply. To do so, the Buckeye Corpus (Pitt et al. 2007) of spoken American English is analyzed quantitatively. As a second step, these results are compared with Polish English; statistics analogous to the ones listed above for American English are gathered for Polish English based on the PLEC corpus (Pęzik 2012). The last section focuses on what consequences for teaching based on a native speaker model the findings have. It is argued that a description of the phenomenon that reflects the behavior of speakers of American English more accurately than extant textbook accounts could be beneficial to the acquisition of these patterns.pl_PL
dc.description.journaltitleResearch in Languagepl_PL
dc.description.number3pl_PL
dc.description.pageof235pl_PL
dc.description.pageto262pl_PL
dc.description.volume14pl_PL
dc.identifier.citationKaźmierski, K., Wojtkowiak, E., Baumann, A. (2016). Coalescent assimilation across word-boundaries in American English and in Polish English. Research in Language vol. 14 (3), pp. 235-262pl_PL
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/rela-2016-0012
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10593/26199
dc.language.isoengpl_PL
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl_PL
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspl_PL
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectcasual speech phonologypl_PL
dc.subjectcorpus phonologypl_PL
dc.subjectforeign language acquisitionpl_PL
dc.subjectcoalescent assimilationpl_PL
dc.subjectglottalizationpl_PL
dc.titleCoalescent assimilation across word-boundaries in American English and in Polish Englishpl_PL
dc.typeArtykułpl_PL

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