Re: American (was Re: Cants)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 17, 2003, 8:05 |
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At 20:12 16.12.2003, Barry Garcia wrote:
>Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
> >If you're going to point to real instances
> >of geographic change in the US, the place to look is the vowel-shifts
> >underway in the Northern and Southern US. Both are chain-shifts,
> >but are proceeding in the *opposite* direction.
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>What *are* the chain shifts happening in the northern and southern US?
See <http://babel.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ICSLP4/BW/ICSLP4BW.html>
/BP 8^)
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