Re: NATLANGS: Difthongization across Europa
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 10:48 |
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On 18.2.2008 David J. Peterson wrote:
> The former is happening/happens in my English before nasals:
It's part of sweeping changes taking place in North American
English. Read the Labov articles I linked and it will all
become clear. I guess the risk that NAmE splits into
mutually incomprehensible languages is a baehd thing,
but the alternative is to kill it!
I wish more people read J.C. Wells' "Accents of English",
which would prevent or change the recurrent YAEPTs.
Meanwhile most of the facts can be found at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_vowels>
and the articles linked there, n this case
<http://tinyurl.com/k33sd> on "ae-tensing".
The truth is out there!
/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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