Re: Greetings

Greetings all! Now that I've passed my quals and have internet access
at my apartment, I can come back to one my of my loves:  conlanging.
Last time I got off, I had just started working on a formal grammar
of Phaleran, but have gotten sidetracked to a large extent by my studies
and various extracurricular activities.  I hope to post some of my
material sometime soon, so keep an eye out for it! I'm eager to see
what y'all have to say.

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Our friend Ray, in response to John, wrote:
>>As for "whole land" and "whole and", "and" is pronounced /@n/ unless
>>special stress is placed on it, so here again there is no real question
>>of phonetic or phonological gemination.
>
>...and, of course, the syllable final "dark-l" is quite a different sound
>from the 'light-l' at the beginning of 'land' in practically all versions
>of English (I think the only exceptions occur in some Irish English
>dialects); the dark-l tends towards [w] and, in London and much of the
>south-east of England has actually become [w] in collquial speech.  I think
>this sound change is known in some other Englishes (Oz??).
Indeed, in many Southern US dialects, the distinction between /l/
and /w/ has been neutralized postvocalically to [w].  This is, I
suspect, one reason why people from outside the South hearing these
dialects using the pronoun "y'all" sometimes think it's being used
as a singular: [jAw] sounds an awful lot like [j@w] or [jM:], both
of which pronunciations are not uncommon in the Southern US for
the singular pronoun "you". (That, and the discourse-functional
reasons I've mentioned on this list before.)

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Thomas Wier          "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n /
Dept. of Linguistics  mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..."
University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought /
1010 E. 59th Street   and not complete one road that has no turn"
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