Phonological free variation in English: an empirical study
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2008/02/0043/000102Keywords:
phonological free variation, free variants, BBC EnglishAbstract
This paper presents the results of a corpus-based study of ten words exhibiting phonological free variation in their phonemic or accentual makeup. The study uses data from the News archives of the BBC Learning English website. The rates of use of the variants for each lexical item are given and discussed.
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