tailieunhanh - english sound structure part 9

english sound structure part 9. Bài tập luyện ngữ pháp tiếng anh cho mọi người, đây là tài liệu hay và hữu ích có thể giúp các bạn có thể nắm vững được các ngữ pháp tiếng anh cụ thể. | 100 Melody Later in its history the front monophthongal outcome of the process shown in 4a underwent merger with e the latter occurring in the MATE class including words such as make fate same tale . This vowel and its back congener or BOAT as in boat home go road then became subject to a series of diphthongization changes the results of which show up as different reflexes in different present-day dialects. The principal developments are the following 5 e ey ay BAIT MATE o ow aw BOAT The original mid monophthongal reflexes are retained in some dialects spoken in j Scotland Ireland and parts of England principally the North and the West . The 1 most widespread subsequent development has been diphthongization to ey and i ow. In the southeast of England this process has proceeded as far as ay and aw the former also showing up in the southern Representationally speaking the diphthongizations in 5 examples of which could be furnished from any number of languages are simply the converse of the monophthongization processes shown in 4 . They can be directly expressed in terms of fission the linear unpacking of a previously fused structure. As shown in 6a diphthongization of e. to ay takes the form of a fission of the elements A and I. The lone association of I to the second position of the nucleus defines the palatal off-glide of the diphthong. 6 a ay b o aw N x x I A A N x x U A As shown in 6b the development of o. to aw is expressed in parallel fashion. Autosegmental representations The task of representing the intermediate developments in 5 e to eyand or to ow raises an important question about the organization of elements within melodic expressions. Up to now I have been depicting compound expressions as matrices of elements with no internal structure. As briefly discussed in this is essentially the format assumed in SPE-style linear representations. It is now acknowledged however that this mode of representation is inappropriate since it .