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Publication details [#11667]

Shapiro, Michael C. 1997. Broad and Flat a in Marked Words. American Speech 72 (4) : 437–439. 3 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
contextualization cue | phoneme | pronunciation
Language as a subject
English, American
Place, Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
ISBN
0003-1283

Annotation

It is argued that in American English, the "broad" versus "flat" pronunciation of marked, foreign words with (e.g. Milan, Dante) signals speaker familiarity with these terms.