Pre-Fortis Clipping is a phenomenon in which vowels are shorter before voiced codas than before voiceless codas. This study tests the hypothesis that the voicing feature in the coda of a syllable can also affect the duration of the initial sound in that syllable, in a manner similar to Pre-Fortis Clipping. Following work done by Hawkins and Nguyen (2003), four measurement studies concentrate on the sonorant consonants /l/ and /n/. Results of the study indicate that American English has this phenomenon as a possible effect for some speakers, contrasting with previous studies of British speech.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/20551 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Fletcher, John Carrold |
| Contributors | Crosswhite, Katherine |
| Source Sets | Rice University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | 32 p., application/pdf |
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