Re: Diphthongs

Yeah, I remeber my socio-ling prof saying that it was one of the few sound
changes that had started in Texas and moved East.  He said it had reached
western Georgia by the early 90's Wonder how much farther it's spread by
now?

Adam who wonders if conlanging tendencies are reinforced by native
Texan-weirdness

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>From: "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Diphthongs
>Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 14:04:23 -0500
>
>Quoting Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:
> > >From: David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
> > >     Because the end result isn't quite a vowel, I guess.  If you
> > > were to go in with some equipment and take the period of the [j] and
> > > physically lengthen it you'd get a vowel...  Maybe it's just my
>English
> > > preconceptions, what with are [aj]="i".  It was difficult at first to
> > > think of that as something other than one sound.
> >
> > Well, in my Texas English it *is* one sound.  The monophthongization of
> > /aj/ is a beauteous thing. *g*
>
>That's also a general Southern phenomenon, too.
>
>BTW, how many Texans do we have on this list?  The recent thread
>on Texas weirdness made me realize we have about have a dozen
>(you, me, Cian, Dan, others?).
>
>==============================
>Thomas Wier <trwier@...>
>
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