By Wolfgang Viereck
This quantity is a wide-ranging research in dialectology. common surveys seem in addition to in-depth reviews of specific difficulties. a few papers describe the current scenario by way of dynamic synchrony, others care for the earlier and utilizing present-day dialectal info to assist remedy convinced difficulties and, eventually, those who draw at the previous to give an explanation for the current. conventional dialectological method is gifted right here, as is sleek quantificational and computative dialectology. additionally, local English and Welsh English are investigated at the phonological, morphological and syntactical degrees.
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7) R e g i o n a l d i f f e r e n c e s in t h e p r o n u n c i a t i o n of t h e h i g h e r v o w e l , including a d i p h t h o n g a l q u a l i t y s u g g e s t i n g i n t e r p r e t a t i o n as a w e a k - s t r e s s e d v a r i a n t of t h e v o w e l of s e e , n e e d not c o n c e r n us h e r e . 8) One of t h e p r i n c i p a l a r g u m e n t s for t h e t r a g e r e m i c b i n a r y i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of English long v o w e l s and d i p h t h o n g s as s e q u e n c e s of short v o w e l plus p o s t v o c a l i c / - j , - w , - h / h a d previously b e e n m a d e by H e n r y S w e e t and o t h e r s : t h a t in English, t h e short v o w e l s n e v e r o c c u r finally, and t h a t , p h o n e t i c a l l y , one does not h a v e p o s t - v o c a l i c [ - j * , - w * , - h * ] , so t h a t c o m p l e m e n t a r y d i s t r i b u t i o n would favor a b i n a r y i n t e r p r e t a t i o n .
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