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𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉Sep 24, 2024

Our new paper, "Using acoustic-phonetic simulations to model historical sound change", has been published in Diachronica:

https://benjamins.com/catalog/getpdf?webfile=a532543950

This should be visible to all (Open Access, CC BY 4.0 license). But the DOI associated with this paper is not yet live, so if anybody has difficulty getting the paper from the Benjamins site, please do let me know and we will alert them.

#etymology #linguistics #statistics #ProtoIndoEuropean #OldEnglish #Latin #phonetics #EnglishPhonetics

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JdeBP Sep 16, 2024

@FourT4 @ancientsounds

It depends from what accent one is using, but yes definitely there are some U.K. accents where there's a difference, ranging in the vowel from /əʊ/ through /ə/ to even /əʊɜ/.

Interestingly, #Wiktionary's voice sample gives the third one for RP "thrown" making it 2 syllables, but doesn't actually transcribe it as such. I'm sure that Geoff Lindsey would have a field day. (-:

#phonetics #EnglishPhonetics #EnglishLinguistics #GeoffLindsey