tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post2213779802099160255..comments2024-01-08T18:25:51.974+00:00Comments on Kraut's English phonetic blog: Compression no. 2 (revised)Krauthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11932831673529849848noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-44716237350118384982015-07-11T09:20:09.745+01:002015-07-11T09:20:09.745+01:00Thanks for the tip!Thanks for the tip!Krauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11932831673529849848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-92080002746190946782015-07-11T09:19:33.773+01:002015-07-11T09:19:33.773+01:00My no.s 1 and 2 are also called smoothing (see P. ...My no.s 1 and 2 are also called smoothing (see P. Ashby 2011); no. 5 is coalescence indeed. The term compression is used e.g. by Ashby 2011, Jack Windsor Lewis 1969 and in various places of his website. Krauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11932831673529849848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-73761972507918578992015-07-11T01:50:33.584+01:002015-07-11T01:50:33.584+01:00AbeBooks has a copy for sale (UK) including reprin...AbeBooks has a copy for sale (UK) including reprints of articles from the Phonetic Journal (Pitman 1881, with Max Muller, G Chisholm and J MartinSidney Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01138711082469220983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-7274822532828623032015-07-09T12:55:32.485+01:002015-07-09T12:55:32.485+01:00In John Maidment's Speech Internet Dictionary ...In John Maidment's Speech Internet Dictionary (= SID) a reduction of the syllable number is called compression. His example is /ʃɔːtənɪŋ/ -> /ʃɔːtnɪŋ/ for <i>shortening</i>. John Wells in his blog describes compression in the same way: In his blog entry of 10 Dec 2010 John writes: "Recall that among the candidates for compression (= loss of a syllable) are those sequences where ə is followed by r or l plus a weak vowel."Krauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11932831673529849848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-2578845660192698962015-07-09T10:49:47.824+01:002015-07-09T10:49:47.824+01:00Who uses it today Petr, or recently? I took a quic...Who uses it today Petr, or recently? I took a quick look at Gimson 1962, he seems to have preferred reduction. And that's my own preference too. Wells 1982 has a brief paragraph where compression is phoneme omission generally (another form of reduction, his example lit'ry for literary). <br /><br />Your no. 5 is yod coalescence, an RP shibboleth in the past and supposedly an Estuary characteristic, see Coggle (we've certainly no inhibitions about it). An early example I have is teejus for tedious from Sheldwich village (1820), just 5 km from Faversham Creek.<br /><br />Could compression originally have been a prescriptive term? i.e. slow down, decompress and improve comprehension?Sidney Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01138711082469220983noreply@blogger.com