Re: Sound changes

Hi!

"Ph. D." <phild@...> writes:
> Sometimes several vowels shift at the same time, a "chain shift."
>
> See here for a currently occurring chain shift in English:
> http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Northeast/ncshift/ncshift.html
Funny, apart from [V]->[O], this looks a bit like a German accent when
trying to immitate an American:

   |but|    [bOt]    <- no German accent
   |from|   [fr\am]  <- a German trying to sound American
   |father| [faD6]   <- a German
   |bad|    [bEt]    <- a German

:-)))

But wait, it's a sound shift not starting from BE, so |from| is not a
good examples for [O].  For the examples on the next page, it does not
work so well anymore as a German accent.

**Henrik