词条 | Th-stopping | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
释义 |
Th-stopping is the realization of the dental fricatives {{IPA|[θ, ð]}} as stops—either dental or alveolar—which occurs in several dialects of English. In some accents, such as of Indian English and middle- or upper-class Irish English, they are realized as the dental stops {{IPA|[t̪, d̪]}} and as such do not merge with the alveolar stops {{IPA|/t, d/}}; thus, for example, tin ({{IPA|[tʰɪn]}} in Ireland and {{IPA|[ʈɪn]}} in India) is not a homophone of thin {{IPA|[t̪ʰɪn]}}.[1] In other accents, such as varieties of Caribbean English, Nigerian English, Liberian English, and older, rural, or working-class Irish English, such pairs are indeed merged.[1] Variation between both dental and alveolar forms exists in much of the working-class English speech of North America and sometimes southern England. Th-stopping occurred in all continental Germanic languages, resulting in cognates such as German die for "the" and Bruder for "brother". New York City EnglishFor the working class of New York City and its surrounding region, the fricatives {{IPA|/θ/}} and {{IPA|/ð/}} are often pronounced as affricatives or stops, rather than as fricatives. Usually they remain dental, so that the oppositions {{IPA|/t-θ/}} and {{IPA|[d-ð]}} are not lost. Thus thanks may be pronounced {{IPA|[θæŋks]}}, {{IPA|[tθæŋks]}}, or {{IPA|[t̪æŋks]}} in decreasing order of occurrence;{{Citation needed|date=December 2011}} all are distinct from tanks {{IPA|[tʰæŋks]}}. The {{IPA|[t̪]}} variant has a weakish articulation. The {{IPA|/t-θ/}} opposition may be lost, exceptionally in the environment of a following {{IPA|/r/}} (making three homophonous with tree), and in the case of the word with, (so that with a may rhyme with the non-rhotic pronunciation of "bitter-bidder"; with you may be {{IPA|[wɪtʃuː]}}, following the same yod-coalescence rule as hit you. These pronunciations are all stigmatized.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}} The {{IPA|[d-ð]}} opposition seems to be lost more readily, though not as readily as the "Brooklynese" stereotype might lead one to believe. As in many other places, initial {{IPA|[ð]}} is subject to assimilation or deletion in a range of environments in relatively informal and/or popular speech, e.g. who's there {{IPA|[huːz (z)ɛə]}}; as in many other places, it is also subject to stopping there {{IPA|/dɛə/}}. This option extends to one or two words in which the {{IPA|/ð/}} is not initial, e.g. other, which can thus become a homonym of utter-udder. But it would not be usual for southern to be pronounced identically with sudden or breathe with breed.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}} African American Vernacular EnglishIn African American Vernacular English, in the words with and nothing, {{IPA|[t]}} may occur corresponding to standard {{IPA|[θ]}}, with the [t] itself being succeeded by the t-glottalization rule: thus {{IPA|[wɪʔ]}} for with and {{IPA|[ˈnʌʔɪn]}} for nothing.[2]{{rp|83}} Th-stopping is also reported for some other non-initial {{IPA|[θ]}}s, apparently particularly when preceded by a nasal and followed by a plosive, as keep your mouth closed.[2]{{rp|90}} In initial position, {{IPA|[θ]}} occurs in AAVE just as in standard accents: thin is {{IPA|[θɪn]}}, without the stopping of West Indian accents.[3] Stopping of initial {{IPA|[ð]}}, however, is frequent making then homophonous with den. Frequency in other accentsTh-stopping is also commonly heard, specifically from speakers of working-class origins, in the American English dialects of the Inland North (for example, in Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, and Scranton), the Upper Midwest (for example in the especially Fennoscandian-descended locals of Minnesota's Iron Range and Michigan's Upper Peninsula), and Mid-Atlantic region (for example, in Philadelphia and Baltimore),[4] It is also heard in a minority of speakers of England's Estuary dialect (for example, in London), but only in case of the word-initial {{IPA|/ð/}}.[5] Many speakers of Philippine English and some speakers of other variants in Asia also have th-stopping. Homophonous pairs
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References1. ^1 {{cite book|last=Wells|first=J.C.|title=The British Isles|series=Accents of English|year=1989|publisher=University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=9780521285407|volume=2|pages=565–66, 635}} {{History of English}}{{IPA navigation}}2. ^1 {{cite journal | doi=10.2307/412325 | issn=0097-8507 | volume=46 | issue=3 | pages=764 | author=Wolfram, Walter A. | title=A Sociolinguistic Description of Detroit Negro Speech | journal=Language | date= September 1970 | jstor=412325}} 3. ^Wolfram 1969, p. 130, does however mention the use of 'a lenis {{IPA|[t]}}' as a rare variant. 4. ^{{cite book|title=How Friendly Are the Natives? An Evaluation of Native-Speaker Judgements of Foreign-Accented British and American English|last=van den Doel|first=Rias|year=2006|publisher=Landelijke onderzoekschool taalwetenschap (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics)|page=268|url=http://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/13381/Doel-13-completetext.pdf}} 5. ^{{cite book|title=How Friendly Are the Natives? An Evaluation of Native-Speaker Judgements of Foreign-Accented British and American English|last=van den Doel|first=Rias|year=2006|publisher=Landelijke onderzoekschool taalwetenschap (Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics)|page=251|url=http://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/13381/Doel-13-completetext.pdf}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Th-Stopping}} 3 : English phonology|Splits and mergers in English phonology|English th |
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