Re: THEORY: Ray on ambisyllabicity

Adrian Morgan:
> And Rosta wrote:
>
> > I say ['hOU5li] for _wholly_ (and ['hOUli] for _holy_, but that's the
> > Australian in my accent)
>
> I think I say /hOuli/ for _wholly_ and /hoUli/ for _holy_, noting that
> /o/ is not [o].
But you're Australian, aren't you? Some Australians seem not to ever have
special allophones of the GO and TOO vowels before /l/, while others,
such as yours and my mother's and hence mine have the allophone always
before /l/. Because we don't have the holy/wholly vowel contrast, we
are not germane to the debate... (I recall that we have previously found
ourselves to have other Oz-related eccentricities in common.)

--And.