The pronunciation of TH in word-initial position in Malaysian English

A new dental stop [t] is emerging in a variety of New English

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ID20356820
AuthorsToshiko Yamaguchi (0000-0003-1609-0277, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume30
Issue3
Pages13-21
Publication date2014-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnglish Today (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0266-0784 • E-ISSN: 1474-0567
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0266078414000224
OpenAlexW1993375867
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

Mesthrie & Bhatt (2008: 125) note that ‘all New Englishes varieties treat [θ] or [ð] as something other than an interdental fricative’. Malaysian English, as a variety of New English, constitutes an interesting case study. In Malaysian English, what Mesthrie & Bhatt (2008: 125) call ‘something other than an interdental fricative’ is realized as the dental stop [t] (e.g. th ought ), which in this paper is dubbed ‘a new [t]’ or presented orthographically as [th > t], whose acoustic quality is strikingly different from the ordinary alveolar stop [t] (e.g. t aught )

Interdental consonant · Linguistics · Pronunciation · Statistics · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research

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