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prevoiceless en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der. Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs Proto-Italic *wōks Latin vōcem Anglo-Norman voizbor. Middle English voys English voice Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English voiceless English prevoiceless From pre- + voiceless.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Before a voiceless sound.
   • The raising of the nucleus of /aw/ before voiceless obstruents has been studied extensively in Canada, even termed ‘Canadian raising’ by some (Chambers, 1973). However, this feature has also been observed far from Canada in the deep South metropolis of New Orleans, Louisiana (Carmichael, 2020b). In this paper, we examine the development of pre-voiceless /aw/ raising in the New Orleans suburb of Chalmette[…] 2022, Marie Bissell, Katie Carmichael, ““Dialect B” on the Mississippi: An acoustic study of /aw/ raising patterns in Greater New Orleans, Louisiana”, in Laboratory Phonology, volume 13, number 1, →DOI, page 2:
   • If we return to the scale proposed by Hazen (2004), the presence of a monophthongal production in the prevoiceless context of tonight predicts that we might see prenasal monophthongization, which indeed we do. 2018, Paul E. Reed, “The Importance of Appalachian Identity: A Case Study in Rootedness”, in American Speech, volume 93, numbers 3-4, →DOI, page 418:
   • For instance, prevoiceless /ay/-raising could be historical residue of the Great Vowel Shift, whereby /ay/ used to be uniformly realized as [əi], but lowered to [ai] except before voiceless consonants. 2016 June, Josef Fruehwald, “The early influence of phonology on a phonetic change”, in Language, volume 92, number 2, →DOI, page 381:

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