The BAD-LAD split: Secondary /æ/-lengthening in Southern Standard British English

Authors

  • Thomas Kettig University of Cambridge, UK University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3732

Keywords:

Southern Standard British English (SSBE), the Received Pronunciation (RP), vowel duration, secondary /æ/-lengthening

Abstract

Descriptions of the Received Pronunciation (RP) and Southern Standard British English (SSBE) have previously commented on vowel lengthening in certain words such as bad and glad as opposed to shorter lad and pad. This paper comprises the first thorough description of the conditioning of /æ/ duration in twenty-one young native SSBE speakers, finding inconclusive evidence for a lexically specified split but significant general lengthening effects of postvocalic /g/ and /d/; this secondary /æ/-lengthening is discussed in reference to phonological analyses of the TRAP-BATH split (primary /æ/-lengthening) and previously established descriptions of co-articulatory segmental effects on vowel length.

Author Biography

  • Thomas Kettig, University of Cambridge, UK University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA
    Graduate Student, Department of Linguistics

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Published

2016-06-12

Issue

Vol. 1 (2016): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

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License

Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.

How to Cite

Kettig, Thomas. 2016. “The BAD-LAD Split: Secondary æ -Lengthening in Southern Standard British English”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 1 (June): 32:1–14. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v1i0.3732.