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- Title
English Flapping and the feature [vibrant].
- Authors
Picard, Marc
- Abstract
In certain varieties of English, and most notably in the majority of North American dialects, alveolar oral and nasal stops undergo a process known as Flapping or Tapping in certain well-defined environments. At the present time, the resulting segments [ɾ] and [ɾ̃] cannot be satisfactorily captured by any known phonetic feature mainly because there is no way to distinguish a nasal stop from a nasal tap or flap. In this paper, I will argue that since vibration is the primary articulatory characteristic of taps, flaps and trills, the phonological rule of Flapping or Tapping constitutes evidence that [vibrant] should be added to the current inventory of features.
- Publication
English Language & Linguistics, 1997, Vol 1, Issue 2, p285
- ISSN
1360-6743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S136067430000054X