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A First Approach to Newfoundland Phonemics*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

P. D. Drysdale
P. D. Drysdale*
Affiliation:
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Extract

The purpose of these remarks is to present a tentative classification of the syllabic phonemes in general use in eastern Newfoundland. In doing so, it will be necessary to justify making such a presentation at this early stage of enquiry, at the same time demonstrating some of the problems involved in the investigation of Newfoundland dialects.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , Spring 1959 , pp. 25 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1959

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Footnotes

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The following is a revised version of the paper read to the CANADIAN LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION, June 12, 1958, under the title The Phonetics of Newfoundland English.

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6. Ibid., p. 121.

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9. Ibid., Preface, p. vii.

10. Possible divisions might be centred on the, following areas: (i) Avalon Peninsula, (ii) Burin Peninsula, and south coast west to Burgeo, (iii) south west corner, (iv) Corner Brook and part of central Newfoundland, (v) northern peninsula, (vi) Notre Dame “Bay and Bonavista Bay.

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12. See, for example, Avis, W. S., “Speech Differences along the Ontario United States Border, 111, Pronunciation,” JCLA., Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 54 Google Scholar.

13. /Iu/, a rising diphthong, is not included, as being a variant of /ju/.

14. Handbook, pp. 123 ff.

15. Jones, Daniel, The Phoneme, its Nature and Use, Cambridge, 1950, p. 10 Google Scholar; and the ‘History and Meaning of the Term “Phoneme”’, Le Maître Phonétique (supplement), July-December, 1857, p. 14.

16. There is a tendency in Newfoundland, especially among children, to diphthongise all vowels which are normally long, and to lengthen vowels which are normally short.

17. i.e. “no member ever occurs in a word in the same phonetic context as any other member.” See Jones, , The History and Meaning of the Term “Phoneme”, p. 14, § 26 and n. 47 Google Scholar.

18. Kurath, , Handbook, p. 128 Google Scholar.

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