Taxonomy of cross-dialectal differences
Systemic differences: different tunes, similar functions
- Belfast statements: L*H %; Cambridge statements: H*L %
Realisational differences: same phonological unit, different realisation
- Same phonological unit truncated in Leeds, compressed in Newcastle
Phonotactic differences: different combinatorial restrictions on tunes
- Prenuclear accents single choice in Cambridge but not in Belfast
NB: Ladd also discusses semantic differences. These have been observed
in the IViE corpus, but have not been included in this presentation