Re: Diphthongs

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?).

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