I have actually also heard [bɹɛkfəsɪz], though only from one person, i.e. seemed
idiolectal not community-level. For info this was from a middle-aged southern UK
English speaker, who also says [tɛks] and [tɛksɪz].
Who's going to lead the research project on this then??
Dave
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On 04/03/2016 00:00, VAR-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 22:09:05 +0000
> From: Josef Fruehwald<[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: She text me
>
> Another point that just occurred to me is that epenthesis in "texes" or
> "textes" is not necessarily diagnostic of underlying "tex". In section 4 of
> this paper, Kyle Gorman and I pulled together some documentation of both
> contemporary and historical data that have [-əz] following/st/ clusters.
> https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/25512
>
> Labov, Cohen, Robins & Lewis (1968) report the following forms of "ghosts"
> across their African American Vernacular speakers:
>
> - gos:
> - gostsə̥s
> - gostsə̥sə̥s
>
> The final example is reminiscent of David Alan Grier's character on In
> Living Color who was obsessed with "big breasteses". Jespersen (1948) also
> said this sort of double epenthesis was discussed in older English usage
> guides, and that the preferred form was <gostes>, which I believe is meant
> to indicate something like [gostəz]. When we were writing up the paper, I
> made special note of a nice token of "dusts" as [dʌstəz] from an AAVE
> speaker from Trenton. But I've heard tokens of "breakfasts"
> as [brɛkfəs(t)əz] from speakers who don't speak particularly high td
> deletion varieties.
>
> All of that is to say there is a weird set of interactions between/st/
> clusters and epenthesis in the /+z/ morphemes thats probably related to TD
> Deletion in some way or another.
>
> -Joe
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