Phonology Augments
This page provides resources for the article “Phonology augments: A New Zealand English speaker’s voiceless stop alternations”, to appear in English Language and Linguistics.
Abstract
The concept of a phonological ‘augment’ is explored in the dominant L1 phonological system of the author, a 50-year old New Zealand male. Several segmental processes involving voiceless stops are examined, including aspiration, glottalization, debuccalization (‘t-glottalling’), deletion, and flapping. Building on Shih (2027), the augment – a voiced non-syllabic approximant [ə] – is proposed as a key component of all of these processes; outcomes are derived through assimilation to or of the augment. This approach is an alternative to theories that ascribe segmental processes to structural reduction or reduction of disharmony.
Keywords: phonology, augment, debuccalization, glottalization, flapping
Audio
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