Re: YAEPT: How you pronunce foreign place names
| From: | Kinetic <kinetic_wab@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 21:04 |
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Eric Christopherson votuala:
> He said /klik/ is disallowed in his idiolect, so I wondered about
> other /ik/ words. It turns out I had misunderstood his point and his
> phonemics - he thinks of the vowel in <beak> et al. as /i:/, rather
> than /i/.
Yep, that's right. /bi:k/, /kr\i:k/, etc. to answer your original
question. Definitely longer vowels than in stuff like /klIk/.
(Sorry, I've been away for a /wi:k/ :-)
K.