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It is well-documented that coronal stops in English are most likely to undergo lenition when appearing in a prosodically weak position. Based on the data in the two corpora, this paper analyzes the patterns of coronal stop realizations across words in American English (AE) and British English (or Received Pronunciation (RP)). Results showed that coronal stops over a word boundary were subject to flapping, glottaling, nasal plosion and deletion. Coronal stops in AE, specifically those in superlative and derivational suffixes, were commonly deleted. Most coronal stops in RP, however, stayed unchanged across words. In addition, coronal stops in AE tended heavily to undergo flapping between vowels, but those in RP did not. The underlying voicing contrast also played a significant role in the variation where voiceless coronal stops often underwent glottaling whereas voiced counterparts did not in both AE and RP. Also, word frequency had an influence on such alternations in the sense that low-frequency words resisted weakening in both dialects.

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Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Factors of variation
3. Data
4. Results
4.1. Voicing
4.2. Preceding and following segments
4.3. Stress
4.4. Morphological structures
4.5. Word frequency
5. Conclusion
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저자

• Jing Sun [ Yeungnam University/Graduate Student ] First Author
• Seung-Hoon Shin [ Seung-Hoon Shin/Yeungnam University/Professor ] Corresponding Author

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• 간행물명

  언어과학 [Journal of Language Sciences]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1225-2522

• 수록기간

  1994~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 705 DDC 405