英语中的同化assimilation
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Assimilation of Speech Sounds in
English
英语中的同化
Definition & Theoretical Research Shane (2006)：
it is a process in which a segment takes on feature of sounds from a neighbouring one.
Victoria Fromkin (2004)：
assimilation is a kind of ease of articulation process in which one sound influences the pronunciation of another adjacent or nearby sound.
Ladefoged (2006)：
anticipatory co-articulation is by far the commonest cause of assimilations in English.
Definition & Theoretical Research
Roach (2001): regressive
defines two kinds of assimilation
progressive
regressive:when the final consonant changes to become like the initial consonant of the second word
progressive:when the final consonant becomes like the preceding consonant in some way as in voicing
Definition & Theoretical Research
Dai Weidong(2010):
A New Concise Course in Linguistics for Students of English
“assimilating one sound to another
by‘copying’a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones similar”
Hu Zhuanglin (2006):
assimilation is a process by which one sound takes on some or all the characteristics of a neighboring sound
regressive assimilation:
If a following sound is influencing a preceding sound
progressive assimilation:
if a preceding sound is influencing a following sound
3 Types
Direction Result Feature
Direction
regressive assimilation
newspaper ：/njuspeipə/
/njuzpeipə/progressive assimilation
it's ：/its/what's : /wɒts/
/itz/ /wɒtz/
reciprocal/double assimilation
did you : /di ’dʒu/
/did u/
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terms
term explanation
the assimilated sound/
the target
sound that changes
the conditioning sound/
the trigger
sound that causes the change
homorganic sound
(同器官发出的，发音部位相同的)two sounds that have the same place of articulation
Types Classified According to Result
plete or total assimilation:
one phone becomes identical to another phone or two different phones become completely identical.
e.g. we t p aint /we p p eɪnt/
whi te c oat /waɪk kəʊkt/
te n m en /te m m en/
goo d b oy /gʊb bɔɪ/
(cited from 李梅.英语语音的同化[J].内蒙古科技与经济，2000（7）
2. Partial assimilation:
one phone is partly identical to another phone or
one phone acquires the same feature (place,manner, voicing, height, rounding, etc.)as another phone.
(a) Acquire the feature of place:
no t me /nɒp mi:/
i n bed /ɪm bed/
(b) Voicing assimilation such as third person singular
and plural endings –s:
pat pat[s] pad pad[z]
cup cup[s] cub cub[z]
(cited from Linguistics --A Course Book by Hu Zhuanglin)