Re: THEORY: free variation [was: Re: [OT] Re: Conlangea Dreaming]
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 13, 2000, 2:06 |
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Adrian Morgan wrote:
> > For instance, "envelope" can be pronounced as [Env@lop] or
> > [anv@lop].
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> It can?
>
> Choice of initial vowel [e] or [O] I would find easier to believe!
Well, for me it's /Inv@lop/, but I often hear /Anv@lop/. Keep in mind
that my dialect doesn't permit /E/ before nasals (altho my *idio*lect
does, I have words like /rimEmbr=/, but /disImbr=/; presumably picked up
from my mother, who's not native to this region). Also, my dialect has
no /O/ period, uses /A/ for those.