are characteristic of older SAE:
· Lack of yod-dropping <# "justify"> Mean formant values ​​for the ANAE subjects from the Southern US (excluding Florida and Charleston, SC). The red symbol marks the position of monophthongized/a?/Before voiced consonants. The distinction between /?/And /?/Is preserved mainly because /?/Has an upglide. /E?/Is backer and lower than /? /. Following features are also associated with SAE:
В· The diphthong <# "justify"> Normally [ з ] and [?] replace the GA [?] and [? ], as in bird [b з d] and sister [ s ? st?] .
Consequently, southerners use the diphthongs [??], [??], [??], though [?] may occasionally drop out. Therefore, fierce may be [f?? S] or [f?: S], poor may be [p??] Or [po?] Or [po]. p align="justify"> [?:], [?] and [?], as in cart, coat and caught, are usually clearly differentiated. On the other hand, caught some times diphthongizes as [k?? T], approaching ambiguity with coat [ko? T]. The shift to [??] Characterizes the whole class of words illustrated by caught, walk, cost, log and law. The diphthongal extreme is illustrated by laundry which may have [?], [?], [?], [?? ], [??] or [??]. Short-o words may have [?] and [?]: log and mock usually have [?]; log may also have variants with [ ?], [??] and [o?]; donkey may have [?], or [?], or [??], or [??].
[Г¦] is normally used in dance and ask, though a diphthongal variant [Г¦ < span align = "justify">?] is frequent, as in [Г¦ ? sk] for ask.
5. American English intonation
the opinion of many American linguists the most important differences between British and American pronunciation involve innovation rather than pronunciation proper.intonation is often characterized as having wider melodic curves "and more rapid changes than AE intonation. As a result of such intonation patterns, the speech of an Englishman sounds abrupt, explosive, manneristic to American ears. At the same time American speech often sounds unemotional, rather dry, sometimes hesitating, monotonous, colorless and indecisive to an Englishmen All these observations are very impressionistic.However, to do justice to American scholars, we should say that some of these observations are not groundless.the past decade a number of electro-acoustic analyses in this country a...
