المرجع الالكتروني للمعلوماتية
المرجع الألكتروني للمعلوماتية

English Language
عدد المواضيع في هذا القسم 6109 موضوعاً
Grammar
Linguistics
Reading Comprehension

Untitled Document
أبحث عن شيء أخر


Sibilant assimilation  
  
503   01:28 صباحاً   date: 2024-03-30
Author : Sandra Clarke
Book or Source : A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
Page and Part : 379-21


Read More
Date: 2024-05-04 424
Date: 2024-06-22 405
Date: 2024-04-15 445

Sibilant assimilation

Traditional speakers in English-settled areas of the province display assimilation of /z/ to /d/ before syllabic /n/. Just as in the southwest of England, however, this assimilation is restricted to contracted negatives of the verb be, i.e. (it) isn’t > , (it) wasn’t > . A similar phenomenon occurs for the lexical items seven and eleven, which are variably pronounced with the sequence .