On some features of consonants in Indian English
The paper aims to show that although the inventory of consonantal phonemes in Indian English does not differ markedly from that of RP, there are some aspects related mainly to different articulations of the sounds discussed which make it sound very peculiar. Thus, the dental fricatives may often be...
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doaj-e3416bd362764e4389e746c71cd9d3272020-11-25T00:20:54ZengEditura Universitatii din BucurestiBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 2069-92392069-92392011-11-01XIII299111On some features of consonants in Indian English Gabriela-Anidora BrozbăThe paper aims to show that although the inventory of consonantal phonemes in Indian English does not differ markedly from that of RP, there are some aspects related mainly to different articulations of the sounds discussed which make it sound very peculiar. Thus, the dental fricatives may often be substituted by the correspondent stops; the stops have may have different aspirations patterns and retroflex articulations; the lateral liquid phoneme does not have any allophones in this variety. The non-rhoticity of post-vocalic /r/ is a feature which brings it closer to RP, but this seems to be changing, at least in some parts of the country. This analysis is at the interface between phonetics and phonology, in the sense that phonetic evidence is provided in support of phonological assumptions.http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BWPL-_2011-_nr-2-_Brozba.pdffricativesstopsliquidsaspirationretroflexion |
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On some features of consonants in Indian English |
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On some features of consonants in Indian English |
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On some features of consonants in Indian English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti |
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Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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2069-9239 2069-9239 |
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The paper aims to show that although the inventory of consonantal phonemes in Indian English does not differ markedly from that of RP, there are some aspects related mainly to different articulations of the sounds discussed which make it sound very peculiar. Thus, the dental fricatives may often be substituted by the correspondent stops; the stops have may have different aspirations patterns and retroflex articulations; the lateral liquid phoneme does not have any allophones in this variety. The non-rhoticity of post-vocalic /r/ is a feature which brings it closer to RP, but this seems to be changing, at least in some parts of the country. This analysis is at the interface between phonetics and phonology, in the sense that phonetic evidence is provided in support of phonological assumptions. |
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