Accent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English

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dc.contributor.authorBalogné Bérces, Katalin
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-15T13:05:18Z
dc.date.available2024-05-15T13:05:18Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractA 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.
dc.description.sponsorshipCertain phases of the research were conducted as part of the “Theoretical and Laboratory Linguistics” project at PPCU, supported by the Thematic Excellence Program of the Hungarian Ministry for Innovation and Technology (TKP2020-NKA-11); others as part of the “Laryngeal patterns in synchrony and diachrony” project sponsored by NKIF grant #142498.
dc.identifier.citation"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2022, Vol. 8, pp. 24-36
dc.identifier.doi10.31743/lingbaw.14955
dc.identifier.issn2450-5188
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7018
dc.language.isopl
dc.publisherWydawnictwo KUL
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectlaryngeal phonology
dc.subjectlaryngeal typology
dc.subjectaccents of English
dc.subjectlaryngeal realism
dc.subjectvoice assimilation
dc.titleAccent boundaries and linguistic continua in the laryngeal subsystems of English
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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