Talk:Clipping (phonetics)

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References

Several mentions can be found via Google Books and Scholar, such as "Transcribing the Sound of English: A Phonetics Workbook for Words and Discourse" by Paul Tench, page 70, and "Phonetics: A Coursebook" by Rachael-Anne Knight, page 162. Peter James (talk) 14:37, 23 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Right, so, it's sometimes used when discussing English phonology. I still question this article's worth here. — Lfdder (talk) 09:36, 24 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I always thought a clipped vowel was an example of Clipping (morphology). That's the only sense found in Crystal's A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Are we sure this isn't Tench's error? — kwami (talk) 05:09, 11 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Explanation

Speculation/original research etc. Clipping is mentioned at http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/342273/are-whores-and-horse-homophones/342281#342281 .

Possible reason: loudness (whatever the technical term for it is) is used as the accent, to make words easier to understand and process in English. An unvoiced consonant provides a signal that the next sounds are a new word. Lengthening a vowel shows that the next sounds after a voiced consonant is a new word. (I am an 'American English' speaker, so fewer long vowels in general.) Consider 'posh', a hypothetical 'poʒ'(voiced 'sh'), and 'Tazmania'. 23.121.191.18 (talk) 06:32, 17 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]