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Broadbent, Judith M. and Sifaki, Evi (2013) To-contract or not to-contract? That is the question. English Language and Linguistics, 17 (3). pp. 513-535. doi:10.1017/S1360674313000142 ISSN 1360-6743.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674313000142
Abstract
The focus of this article is what Anderson (2005: 72) describes as ‘another chronic puzzle in English’, the case of to-contraction. We set out to show that the extent and nature of to-contraction has not been captured by the literature to date, because researchers have been concerned with two forms which are no longer synchronic to-contractions: wanna and gonna, and have taken a syntactic or morphological approach. On the basis of new phonological data from British English varieties we argue that the reduction of /t/ in to should be taken as evidence of to-contraction. We claim that to is a phonological clitic and to-contraction is simply the incorporation of the clitic to into the preceding prosodic word.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | English Language and Linguistics | ||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 1360-6743 | ||||||
Official Date: | November 2013 | ||||||
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Volume: | 17 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 513-535 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S1360674313000142 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
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