Intervocalic voiceless velar stop

The tiggit to a new North American English

feature?

/k/

Intervocalic voiceless velar stop

The tiggit to a new North American English

feature?

VkV

Voicing of /k/

between vowels

Voicing of intervocalic /k/ tastes just like....

['tʃI:gin]

Nascent feature English is continually changing

History of intervocalic voicing Interdialectal exchange Media of communication

Natural process of assimilation Facilitates rapid speech

Lazy anomaly

No documentation or studies Not associated with specific region or

speakers Result of mumbling adolescents?

Methodology Speakers from

various regions Emotionally

engaging topics Politics Cold remedies, et al.

Record occurrences of voiced intervocalic /k/

How many speakers demonstrate the

change?

Findings Speaker from Wisconsin

“He gave us tickets.”

[hii� 'gei� vǝs'tʰI:gɨt� s] Speaker from Utah Valley

“What are you talking about?”

['wʌɾɻ� juu'tʰɑ:gɨnǝ'bæuʔ]

Findings, ctd.

Speaker from Pacific Northwest “That's the ticket.”

['đæt� sđǝ'tʰI:gɨt� ] Speaker from Georgia

“Just a second.”

['dʒʌstǝ'sɛgɨ'nʔ]

Future work More thorough, widespread samples Further developed in certain dialects more

than others? Frication? Restricted to certain words?

Limited lexicon Vowel environment Morpheme boundaries?