Affrication as the cause of /s/-retraction: Evidence from Manchester English
Retraction of /s/ to a more [ʃ]-like sound is a well-known sound change attested across many varieties of English for /stɹ/ words, e.g. street and strong. Despite recent sociophonetic interest in the variable, there remains disagreement over whether it represents a case of long-distance assimilation...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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Open Library of the Humanities
2022
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