There is no doubt that glottalisation of syllable-final stops in Received Pronunciation is on the increase, but this has sometimes been taken to imply that the feature has mushroomed as a late 20th-century phenomenon. This paper sets out to show that glottalisation is actually of some antiquity. Explicit references (by reputable linguists) to glottalisation in the standard language date from the early 1920s, while audio recordings going back even further provide us with direct proof. If apparent time is taken into account, such data could indicate that glottalisation was quite common from at least the mid-19th century onwards.
2008. t-to-rin West Yorkshire English. English Language and Linguistics 12:1 ► pp. 141 ff.
Eddington, David & Caitlin Channer
2010. American English Has Goʔ A Loʔ Of Glottal Stops: Social Diffusion and Linguistic Motivation. American Speech 85:3 ► pp. 338 ff.
EDDINGTON, DAVID & MICHAEL TAYLOR
2009. T-Glottalization IN AMERICAN ENGLISH. American Speech 84:3 ► pp. 298 ff.
Eddington, David Ellingson & Earl Kjar Brown
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Ježek, Miroslav
2021. Sociophonology of Received Pronunciation. Native and Non-Native Environments,
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Schleef, Erik
2013. Glottal replacement of /t/ in two British capitals: Effects of word frequency and morphological compositionality. Language Variation and Change 25:2 ► pp. 201 ff.
2012. No Bot’le No Party: T-Glottaling and Pronouncing Dictionaries. Language & History 55:1 ► pp. 63 ff.
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