A Fake Diphthong in English
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F23%3AAUUQCNF6" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/23:AUUQCNF6 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110730081-003/html" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110730081-003/html</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110730081-003" target="_blank" >10.1515/9783110730081-003</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
ukrajinština
Original language name
A Fake Diphthong in English
Original language description
"English is generally agreed to have true diphthongs: vowel-glide sequences contained within the same syllable nucleus. There is evidence that it also has at least one fake diphthong, in which the glide falls outside the nucleus: the /ow/ that occurs post-tonically in words such as yellow, tomorrow, potato. At stake here is the wider question of whether we can maintain the otherwise robust generalisation that stress in English is quantity-sensitive, one symptom of which is that diphthongs render a syllable heavy and thus attract stress. Post-tonic /ow/ appears to breach this pattern. If it were a heavy diphthong, quantity- sensitivity would require it to bear subsidiary stress (e.g. *yéllów). However, evidence to be reviewed here clearly points to /ow/ being unstressed in this position. The apparent contradiction is resolved if we treat unstressed /ow/ as a fake diphthong, consisting of a short nucleus followed by a non-nuclear position (i.e. VC). Metrically, this makes yellow just like rabbit: in both cases, the final consonant is extra-metrical, meaning that the preceding syllable is light and unstressed, in accord with quantity-sensitivity."
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
Project
—
Continuities
—
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
"Syllable, Stress, and Sign"
ISBN
978-3-11-073008-1
Number of pages of the result
14
Pages from-to
55-68
Number of pages of the book
302
Publisher name
De Gruyter
Place of publication
—
UT code for WoS chapter
—