English is an Indo-European language of the Germanic family. In the following dialect of English, common...

 

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English is an Indo-European language of the Germanic family. In the following dialect of English, common in Canada and parts of the United States, there is a predictable variant [ac] of the diphthong [av]. What phonetic segments condition this change? What feature(s) characterize the class of conditioning segments? a. [ǝbaot] about b. [kau] COW loud rouse out doubt bough oust vowel house c. [laud] d. [Jauz] e. [ǝot] f. [dot] g. [bar] h. [ast] i. [vaul] j. [haus] k. [noun] noun 1. [mǝu0] mouth m. [auns] n. [buaoz] o. [kautſ] ounce browse couch t English is an Indo-European language of the Germanic family. In the following dialect of English, common in Canada and parts of the United States, there is a predictable variant [ac] of the diphthong [av]. What phonetic segments condition this change? What feature(s) characterize the class of conditioning segments? a. [ǝbaot] about b. [kau] COW loud rouse out doubt bough oust vowel house c. [laud] d. [Jauz] e. [ǝot] f. [dot] g. [bar] h. [ast] i. [vaul] j. [haus] k. [noun] noun 1. [mǝu0] mouth m. [auns] n. [buaoz] o. [kautſ] ounce browse couch t

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