Re: CHAT: Names, was: Re: Brithenig-heads

At 11:12 23.4.2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote:

> > BTW, I'm not uneducated, I can talk "normally", it's just that I'm quite
> > attached to my accent.
>
>So should we all be, IMNSHO.
I fully agree!  Non-standard speakers everywhere unite!

>Other people have trouble understanding
>me when I say "milk" [ml<vcl>k], but I cling to this pronunciation
>nevertheless.
I cling to pronunciations like [vAm.t]  and [m-uk.t] for _varmt_ and
_mörkt_ NEUT.SG. of "warm" and "dark" respectively, despite the fact that
in standard Swedish /r/ and a following dental must be contiguous for
retroflexion to occur.  Somebody told me I shouldn't use them because they
are hard to pronounce.  Not for me, they aren't! :-)

I also cling to realizing /l/ as a retroflex flap [.r] after labials --
*especially* since I discovered that it is an idiolectal thing.  I guess I
picked it up from someone as a kid, but I'm the only now living person I
know who has this distribution.  In Swedish dialects [.r] for /l/ generally
or as a phoneme derived from older *rð [rD] is quite common, but
contextually constrained distribution is rare.





/BP

 B.Philip Jonsson
mailto:bpj@netg.se
mailto:melroch@my-deja.com
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