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Pre-R Dentalisation in northern England1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2012

WARREN MAGUIRE
WARREN MAGUIRE*
Affiliation:
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Dugald Stewart Building3 Charles Street, Edinburgh EH8 [email protected]
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Abstract

Dental pronunciation of alveolar consonants before /r/ and /ər/ is a well-known feature of traditional varieties of Irish English. This Pre-R Dentalisation (PreRD) has a number of intriguing linguistic properties, in particular an associated /r/-Realisation Effect and a Morpheme Boundary Constraint. It is less well known that PreRD is (or perhaps was) also a feature of a number of English varieties outside Ireland, particularly in traditional northern English dialects. This article analyses dialect data from northern England in order to determine the nature of PreRD there and its historical relations with the phenomenon in Irish English. In addition, it explores the phonological complexities of PreRD in light of the loss of rhoticity in traditional northern English dialects.

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , November 2012 , pp. 361 - 384
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank Patrick Honeybone and two anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments on this article. Any remaining deficiencies are, of course, of my own making.

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