Re: Intro to Mujai -- phonology
| From: | Muke Tever <alrivera@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 9, 2001, 9:58 |
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From: "Patrick Dunn" <tb0pwd1@...>
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> Standard midwestern with a bit of Chicago nasal.
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> I think /j@/ is wrong. Can one do /I@/? Maybe that's closer.
One can, and one often hears it around here. It seems to be one realization of
the merged "pin/pen" phoneme... (at least, if that's [I@_^], with non-syllabic
[@], and not [I_^@], with non-syllabic [I])
(The other day I was slightly jarred to hear a cake described as tasting like
[mI@n], which I first parsed as "men" but very quickly realized was meant to be
"mint", which fit the context exactly fifty thousand times better...)
*Muke!