> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of B Garcia
> Oddly enough, I've ended up with "ya" in my speech and
Monterey isn't
> reknown for a large German/Scandanavian population. Of course,
it
> could be related to the emerging "California accent", where
/&/ often
> ends up something like /a/ (and I have noticed features of the
accent
> in my speech if I'm being informal (I take care not to let it
slip at
> work, very much).
Same here. I tend to say [ja] instead of [j{], and years of
German study only reinforced it.
BTW: Californians don't have accents. Everyone else does.