Volume 01, Winter 1975
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- ItemOpen AccessCalgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 1, Winter 1975(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Klokeid, Terry J.; Roberts, Linda; Cook, Eung-Do; Stewart, Charlotte; Hofer, EarlThe ten papers presented in this first issue share the theme of the phonology of Canadian English. The authors were students in an undergraduate course on the history of English, winter term 1974. Some, but not all of the papers contain original observations. The common purpose of these articles is to make accessible to other undergraduate students materials dealing with Canadian English.
- ItemOpen AccessThe glottal closure sound in English(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Kemp, LeanneIn the Alberta dialect of English, there are three environments which will affect the pronuncation of the /t/ phoneme. While these pronunciations may be found to be widespread, their employment is optional and may vary on different occasions, even within the same individual and with the same word. These pronunciations are influenced by the surrounding phonological environment. Depending on the environment, the pronunciation of the /t/ may be: (1) voiceless aspirated (2) voiced or (3) changed to a glottal closure sound.
- ItemOpen AccessRule ordering in Canadian English(University of Calgary, 1975-01) Jones, BrendaOver ten years ago, "Morris Halle cited Martin Joos' data to demonstrate that some Canadian dialect differences can be characterized in terms of differently ordered rules." Two of these differently ordered rules are T-Voicing and Vowel Shortening, called for short Voicing and Shortening, respectively.