Re: THEORY: Semivowels
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 9, 1999, 4:54 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> > My dialect of English has four
> > glides: /w/, /w_0/, /j/, and /j_0/
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> I assume you mean [w_0] and [j_0]? I don't know of any dialects that
> have a phonemic [j_0], and I don't think you've said you have phonemic
> [w_0], either.
Well, I was being imprecise. My idiolect has four; my dialect has three:
I mean /j_0/ (It's not /hj/). Also, I've been hanging around people who use
/w_0/, and so have in a manner picked it up. I never used to distinguish
them; now, I fairly regularly distinguish e.g. "whether" and "weather".
(Anyway, I kinda like its anachronistic flavor; it reminds me of Beowulf
sometimes when using it).
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