yod coalescence

alternative yod-coalescence · alternative Yod coalescence · alternative Yod Coalescence

1. uncountablehuman sciencesA process in English phonology whereby the clusters [dj], [tj], [sj], and [zj] become [dʒ], [tʃ], [ʃ], and [ʒ], respectively, through mutual assimilation.

   In words such as nature this process is long complete; but there are many other words where this ‘yod coalescence’ is still variable.

   2006, J. C. Wells, “British English Pronunciation Preferences: A Changing Scene”, in Kingsley Bolton, Braj B. Kachru, editors, World Englishes, Routledge, →ISBN, page 236

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   Some English dialects with /dj/ and /tj/ within a morpheme have gradient amounts of affrication, from [dj] in careful speech to extreme “yod coalescence” approximating [dʒ][…].

   1995, James M. Scobbie, “What Do We Do When Phonology is Powerful Enough to Imitate Phonetics? Comments on Zsiga”, in Bruce Connell, Amalia Arvaniti, editors, Phonology and Phonetic Evidence, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 306

   In the sequence would you, the female speaker uses yod coalescence: The alveolar plosive /d/ and the palatal approximant, /j/, merge to form the affricate [dʒ].

   2011, Paul Skandera, Peter Burleigh, A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology, 2nd edition, Narr, →ISBN, page 149

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of yod coalescence.

   EE speakers typically use Yod Coalescence in stressed syllables as in Tuesday [ˈtʃuːzdeɪ] or duke [ˈdʒuːk].

   2011, Dania Jovanna Bonness, Estuary English in Norfampton?, master's thesis, University of Bergen, page 12

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   Awareness of the fact that Yod Coalescence is somewhat stigmatized leads to hypercorrection in would-be elegant speech, with the use of [tj, dj] in place of [tʃ, dʒ] in words such as chew, June.

   1982, J. C. Wells, Accents of English 2: The British Isles, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 331

   In this investigation, the linguistic context is restricted to /j/ after /t, d/ in stressed syllables within a word (e.g. tune, duke). This is the environment in which Yod Coalescence is not (yet) fully acceptable within RP.

   2003, Ulrike Altendorf, Estuary English, Gunter Narr Verlag, →ISBN, page 68

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of yod coalescence.

   London and Southeastern English accents have variable Yod dropping and Yod coalescence.

   2004, Ulrike Altendorf, Dominic Watt, “The Dialects in the South of England: Phonology”, in Edgar W. Schneider et al., editors, A Handbook of Varieties of English, volume 1, Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 196

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   As for the native speakers of English, the only phonostylistic processes all three of them applied…were the following: nasal assimilation in triumph and palatalization (“Yod coalescence”) in Tell me what you want.

   1990, Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, “Phonostylistics and Second Language Acquisition”, in Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, volume 25, pages 76–77

   However, what was somewhat surprising was the extended use of Yod coalescence in word-initial positions (e.g., ‘Tuesday’).

   2008, David Levey, Language Change and Variation in Gibraltar, John Benjamins Publishing Company,, →ISBN, page 148