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Smoothing
المؤلف:
Peter Trudgill
المصدر:
A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
الجزء والصفحة:
172-8
2024-03-05
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Smoothing
We have already noted that earlier ingliding diphthongs have become monophthongs: 
in near, /εə/ > /ε:/ in square. This is also true of 
in poor, 
in pore, and (presumably) 
in pure. This development has also occurred in original triphthongs, giving tower /ta:/ and fire /fa:/ in working-class speech – the vowel /a:/ occurs only as a result of smoothing. In middle class speech, however, in which /a:/ is more central, /a:/ does not occur, and tar and tower are homophonous.
This historical process involving lowering before /ə/ and then loss of /ə/ is paralleled by a synchronic phonological process which carries across morpheme and word boundaries, and extends to additional vowels. (In examining the following examples, recall that East Anglia has /ə/ in most unstressed syllables where many other accents have 
.) The full facts can be summarized as follows:
Thus, do it is homophonous with dirt and going rhymes with lawn. The vowels /æ:/, /a:/, 
occur only as a result of smoothing. Interestingly, some speakers in Norwich pronounce towel as /tз:l/. Smoothing is most typical of the northern zone of East Anglia, but is currently spreading southwards (Trudgill 1986).
مواضيع ذات صلة
قسم الشؤون الفكرية يصدر مجموعة قصصية بعنوان (قلوب بلا مأوى)
قسم الشؤون الفكرية يصدر مجموعة قصصية بعنوان (قلوب بلا مأوى)
قسم الشؤون الفكرية يصدر كتاب (سر الرضا) ضمن سلسلة (نمط الحياة)
