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What is the linguistic distance between the pronunciations of the word ‘rose’ in the counties Lebanon and Monroe? |
To see the alignments, you first have to choose the item ‘rose’ in the drop down item list. Then you choose one of the sites Lebanon or Monroe in the list of places and click Show alignments. This will show the list of all the alignments of the word ‘rose’ for the selected place. In the list, you find the pair Lebanon-Monroe:
The alignment shows that in Lebanon the word ‘rose’ is pronounced [ros], while the pronunciation in Monroe is [roʊz]. Because the pronunciation in Monroe is diphthongized while Lebanon has a monophthongal vowel, the first operation is the insertion of ʊ, which gives a cost of 1. The second cost is a substitution cost: at the end of the word Lebanon has a voiceless s, while Monroe has voiced z. The sum of the two operations is 2, which is the linguistic distance between the two pronunciations.