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Title: Reversal of short front vowel raising in Australian English
Related: Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (9th : 2008) (22 - 26 September 2008 : Brisbane)
Related: Fletcher, J. & Loakes, D.. Proceedings of Interspeech 2008 : incorporating SST 2008, 22-26 September 2008, Brisbane, Australia, p.342-345
Related: http://clas.mq.edu.au/felicity/Papers/CoxPalethorpe_Interspeech08new.pdf
Publisher: Adelaide : Casual Productions
Date: 2008
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 200400 Linguistics
Author/Creator: Cox, Felicity
Author/Creator: Palethorpe, Sallyanne
Description: In this paper we present the results of a trend analysis comparing acoustic vowel data collected from Australian English speakers over the past 40 years. Results reveal the final stage of short front vowel raising and provide evidence for subsequent lowering as a change in progress. We argue that this result reflects the reversal of a series of vowel changes that have been in progress for over 100 years. These findings raise interesting theoretical questions about the nature of vowel shifts and challenge Bybee’s [1] assertion that sound change reversals cannot occur.
Description: 4 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 200400 Linguistics
Subject Keyword: phonetics
Subject Keyword: vowels
Subject Keyword: sound change
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Linguistics
Organisation: Macquarie University. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/156260
Identifier: ISSN:1990-9772
Identifier: mq-rm-2007010702
Language: eng
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