Re: Beijing, Zhongguo, etc.
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 25, 2008, 8:31 |
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
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> > /E/ does not occur before /n/
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> It does in my 'lect; "hen", "pen", etc. have no diphthongalization...
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> Where [E] can't occur for me is before /g/ or /N/.
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So what happens to words like "peg" or "length"? How do you pronounce them?
Additionally I don't understand Jim's comment about the prohibition of /E/
before /n/: "pen", "men", "glen", "fen", "when"...?
Eugene
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