Ungrammaticality and descriptive adequacy in English pronunciation: the case of syncope
This paper looks at the grammar of a subset of vowel-zero alternations in English using findings from a large-scale descriptive project on syncope in contemporary spoken English. The data consist of 15 hours of casual conversations representing some 30 speakers illustrating three varieties (Californ...
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Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
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Series: | Anglophonia |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/1183 |