Summary of Findings
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38% rate of yod-dropping over whole corpus
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27.5% rate of yod coalescence over whole corpus
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Higher rate of yod-dropping in older speakers 54.6% versus 24.6% for
younger speakers
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Only incidence of yod coalescence in younger speakers at a rate of 45.8%
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There is little difference in rate of yod-dropping between males and females.
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Males show a greater rate of coalescence than females
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There is no signifiacnt difference in the rate of yod-dropping between the
males and females in the older age group.
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Younger male speakers delete /j/ at a slightly higher rate than females.
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/d/ is the favoured post consonantal environment for palatisation to occur
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There was a greater rate of yod-dropping in monosyllabic words than
polysyllabic words
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In relation to stress, both yod-dropping and coalescence occurred only in
stressed syllables.
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The rate of yod-dropping was higher in open syllables.