English phonotactics. Bauer, L. English Language and Linguistics, 19(3):437–475, 2015. doi abstract bibtex This article presents an analysis of the phonotactic structures of English presented in The Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary, paying attention to morphological boundaries, the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables, the difference between native and non-native, and considering the distribution of vowels as well as consonants. The phonotactic status of names turns out to be unlike the status of other morphologically unanalysable words, and some new observations are made on consonant clusters as well as vowel sequences, which have previously been overlooked.
@Article{Bauer2015,
author = {Laurie Bauer},
journal = {English Language and Linguistics},
title = {English phonotactics},
year = {2015},
number = {3},
pages = {437--475},
volume = {19},
abstract = {This article presents an analysis of the phonotactic structures of English presented in The Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary, paying attention to morphological boundaries, the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables, the difference between native and non-native, and considering the distribution of vowels as well as consonants. The phonotactic status of names turns out to be unlike the status of other morphologically unanalysable words, and some new observations are made on consonant clusters as well as vowel sequences, which have previously been overlooked.},
comment = {Data based on BBC English
Clusters vs. sequences
* A consonant cluster is found within the confines of a syllable, while a consonant sequence may go beyond the confines of the syllable. Thus in sphere there is a /sf/ cluster, but in dysfunctional, the sequence /sf/ is not cluster because the source shows the two consonants to be divided by a syllable boundary.
* The articles focuses on clusters, not sequences
English has epenthetic stops
* Dance is pronounced Dants
* Prince is pronounced prints
Some constraints
* Voiced and unvoiced obstruents cannot occur in a cluster (though they can occur in a sequence)
* VC sequences: Most vowels can be immediately followed by most consonants, except where there is some general systematic rule against it, such as the lack of final /h/.
* Initial single consonants are fundamentally unrestricted by the vowels to which they attach.
Table of tables
1. Vowels with following consonants
2. Initial CCC clusters
3. Initial CC clusters
4. CC final clusters and their uses
5. CCCC final clusters
6. Lexical (type) frequency of CC # clusters
7. Frequencies of #CC clusters
8a. Word-final cluster frequency: lexical
8b. Word-final cluster frequency: including a morpheme boundary
8c. Word-initial clusters
9. Geminate consonants over morphological boundaries
10. Geminate vowels over morphological boundaries
11. Vowel sequences indicating morphological boundaries
12. Vowel sequences in proper names
13. Vowel sequences in loans},
doi = {10.1017/S1360674315000179},
file = {:/Users/endress/Articles/English phonotactics.pdf:PDF},
}
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