Corpus data from the Audio British National Corpus was used to compare the acoustics of British English stops with velar and/or labial articulation in onset positions preceding back rounded vowels. The acoustics of labialized velar stops in British English have not commonly been described due to their frequent phonological analysis as clusters. Labialized velars have been characterized cross-li...

This paper examines an anaphoric construction, British English do, and locates it within the dichotomy in the ellipsis literature between deleted phrases and null pro-forms, concluding that the choice is a false one, in that pro-forms involve deletion as well; the question, then, is how to account for the differential permeability to dependencies that require external licensing of the various d...

Abstract This study considers regional variation of voice quality in two varieties British English – Southern Standard and West Yorkshire English. A comparison profiles for three closely related but not identical northern within is also considered. Our findings do contradict the small subset previous research which explored and/or social insofar as regionality may play a role speaker’s profile....

Primary lexical stress is realised differently in English and Welsh. English lexical stress involves greater vowel duration in the associated syllable, whereas Welsh involves the shortening of the vowel associated with the stressed syllable and the lengthening of the immediately following consonant. Some accounts have suggested that Welsh English also features this long post-stress consonant. T...

Acoustic studies of several languages indicate that second-formant (F2) slopes in high vowels have opposing directions (independent of consonantal context): front [iː]-like vowels are produced with a rising F2 slope, whereas back [uː]-like vowels are produced with a falling F2 slope. The present study first reports acoustic measurements that confirm this pattern for the English variety of Stand...