TY - JOUR

T1 - TD-deletion in British English

T2 - New evidence for the long-lost morphological effect

AU - Baranowski, Maciej

AU - Turton, Danielle

N1 - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-variation-and-change/article/tddeletion-in-british-english-new-evidence-for-the-longlost-morphological-effect/4157F17EED627BA7938B11FA9D7BB816 The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Language Variation and Change, 32 (1), pp 1-23 2020, © 2020 Cambridge University Press.

PY - 2020/6/1

Y1 - 2020/6/1

N2 - This paper analyzes td-deletion, the process whereby coronal stops /t, d/ are deleted after a consonant at the end of the word (e.g., best, kept, missed) in the speech of 93 speakers from Manchester, stratified for age, social class, gender, and ethnicity. Prior studies of British English have not found the morphological effect—more deletion in monomorphemic mist than past tense missed—commonly observed in American English. We find this effect in Manchester and provide evidence that the rise of glottal stop replacement in postsonorant position in British English (e.g., halt, aunt) may be responsible for the reduction in the strength of this effect in British varieties. Glottaling blocks deletion, and, because the vast majority of postsonorant tokens are monomorphemic, the higher rates of monomorpheme glottaling dampens the typical effect of deletion in this context. These findings indicate organization at a higher level of the grammar, while also showing overlaid effects of factors such as style and word frequency.

AB - This paper analyzes td-deletion, the process whereby coronal stops /t, d/ are deleted after a consonant at the end of the word (e.g., best, kept, missed) in the speech of 93 speakers from Manchester, stratified for age, social class, gender, and ethnicity. Prior studies of British English have not found the morphological effect—more deletion in monomorphemic mist than past tense missed—commonly observed in American English. We find this effect in Manchester and provide evidence that the rise of glottal stop replacement in postsonorant position in British English (e.g., halt, aunt) may be responsible for the reduction in the strength of this effect in British varieties. Glottaling blocks deletion, and, because the vast majority of postsonorant tokens are monomorphemic, the higher rates of monomorpheme glottaling dampens the typical effect of deletion in this context. These findings indicate organization at a higher level of the grammar, while also showing overlaid effects of factors such as style and word frequency.

U2 - 10.1017/S0954394520000034

DO - 10.1017/S0954394520000034

M3 - Journal article

VL - 32

SP - 1

EP - 23

JO - Language Variation and Change

JF - Language Variation and Change

SN - 0954-3945

IS - 1

ER -