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Publication details [#64916]

Mackenzie, Laurel. 2018. Variable stem-final fricative voicing in American English plurals: Different pa[ð ~ θ]s of change. Language Variation and Change 30 (2) : 147–174.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | lexeme | noun | plural | voicing vs. devoicing

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article explores analogical leveling in a small range of American English nouns that hold irregular plural forms. In these nouns, which all result in a voiceless fricative, the fricative standardly voices in the plural (e.g., wolf–wol[v]es, path–pa[ð]s, house–hou[z]es).