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Re: OT: YAEPT: English low vowels (was briefly: Re: Y/N variants (< OT: English a...

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Thursday, December 13, 2007, 23:02
--- "T. A. McLeay" <conlang@...> wrote:

> Mark J. Reed wrote: > > > Right. Not all Americans have the LOT/THOUGHT merger, not even those who > > have the PALM/LOT merger. This is why there are so dadgum many lexical > sets > > in Wells's list; i'm almost certain that no single dialect distinguishes > all > > of them. > > There's Americans without the PALM/LOT merger?
I'm a native born American and I can't recall ever hearing anybody merge PALM/LOT. Both PALM/LOT and LOT/THOUGHT mergers would just sound weird to my Amuriken ears. PALM/THOUGHT on the other hand share the same vowel sound. --gary

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