YAEPT after all: English diphthongs
| From: | Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 12:26 |
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Den 26. aug. 2008 kl. 13.21 skreiv Daniel Prohaska:
> I speak the English of the Greater Manchester area and I've got
> monophthings in words such as <great> [grE:t], <face> [fE:s],
> <boat> [bO:t], <nose> [nO:z];
I think a great many English and Scottish dialects have monophthongs
in these words. Irish, too, I suppose. But I have heard re-
diphthongising variants that sound something like [grE{t] and [bO@t].
I believe I've heard [griEt] as well. Where do we locate those? If
I'm not dreaming them?
LEF
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