R script to produce dialectal spellings based on phonological features in the North of England, e.g. ‘happy’ > ‘happeh’ (reflecting super-lax happY vowel in Manchester English).
Features included:
- (ing), e.g. walking > walkin
- (td)-deletion, e.g. just > jus
- (th)-fronting, e.g. tooth > toof
- (th)-stopping, e.g. that > dat
- (h)-dropping, e.g. happens > appens
- happY-laxing, e.g. city > citeh
- AW-to-UW, e.g. town > toon
- T-to-K, e.g. bottle > bockle
- T-to-R, e.g. got a > gorra
- general consonantal reduction, e.g. doesn’t > dunt
- general vocalic reduction, e.g. *yourself > yerself
Takes the CMU pronouncing dictionary as input and adds frequency counts from the SUBTLEX-UK corpus.
Script used for the analysis presented in:
Nini, Andrea, George Bailey, Diansheng Guo & Jack Grieve. to appear. The graphical representation of phonological dialect features of the North of England on social media. In Patrick Honeybone & Warren Maguire (eds.), Dialect writing and the North of England. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.