Vowels LOT
المؤلف:
Urszula Clark
المصدر:
A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
الجزء والصفحة:
144-7
2024-02-28
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Vowels LOT
The BCDP data indicate that the WM dialect typically has 
, with some raising. However, for Sandwell, Mathisen (1999: 108) characterizes the LOT vowel as 
, and Painter (1963: 30–31) has BC 
, realized as 
, with sporadic (rare) 
. Heath (1980: 87) has 
for Cannock.
The 
-type realizations are particularly interesting. Chinn and Thorne (2001: 21–22, 30) suggest that for Bm speakers, LOT is typically 
, with 
especially for younger speakers and 
especially for WC and/or older speakers. He claims that the latter pronunciation is still largely retained in the Black Country and the more westerly parts of Birmingham; as noted above, he suggests the historically Northern-type WM accent has been influenced by Southern variants. There is indeed evidence (especially written, but some audio) for 
realizations (especially before nasals, and especially 
), e.g. Bm <lung> long; BC <sung> song, <(w)rung> wrong, <frum> from, <bunnyfire> bonfire, <Aynuk> Enoch, <wuz> was. This alternation would seem to go back to ME times: as noted above, Brook (1972: 69) claims as a defining characteristic of the Middle English WM dialect the tendency for OE /o/_ to become ME /u/ before 
.
There is written evidence for unrounded realizations in words such as BC <drap> drop, <shaps> shops; similar failure to round also occurs in some cases of CLOTH (e.g. soft, wasp) and THOUGHT (e. g. water).
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