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Braber, N. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2611-1190, Halfacre, C. and Jansen, S.,
2024.
The stability of the trap-bath split in the East Midlands.
Journal of English Linguistics.
ISSN 0075-4242
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Abstract
This article reviews the status of the trap-bath split in the counties of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. The East Midlands forms a linguistic transition zone between northern English varieties which lack (part of) the trap-bath split, and southern English varieties which have this split. We examine the acoustic properties of trap and bath in the region to determine whether this pattern is stable over time or diffusing. Reading-passage data, stratified by age group, sex, and location are used to provide an apparent time and multilocal view on the distribution of the two vowel categories. Results suggest there is no complete overlap between these vowel sets in the region, although it varies across the East Midlands. Furthermore, we find the East Midlands apparently occupies a stable middle ground between northern and south-eastern varieties.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Journal of English Linguistics | ||||||
| Creators: | Braber, N., Halfacre, C. and Jansen, S. | ||||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||
| Date: | 24 October 2024 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0075-4242 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © The Author(s) 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Arts and Humanities | ||||||
| Record created by: | Laura Ward | ||||||
| Date Added: | 05 Nov 2024 16:14 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 16:14 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52504 |
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