Re: English |a|

One problem si that in RP- my accent- the vowels in
"bob" and "father" are not the same at all.



 --- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> HM = Herman Miller
> TM = Tristan McLeay
>
> HM> I used to pronounce "warg" as /wOrg/, but I've
> also heard it as
> HM> /wArg/, and I don't know which is correct.
>
> 1. What the heck is a "warg"?
>
> 2. My automatic mental reading of it has the
> ah-sound there, so it
>    rhymes with "arg"(ument) rather than
> "org"(anization).
>
> TM> American English seems to have some sort of
> issue with short O vs AW,
>
> Not sure what you mean by that.
>
> WARNING!  YAEPT BEGINNING!
>
> I have four sounds in the range under discussion,
> best represented in
> English fauxnetics by "ah", "aw", "or", "oh".   Note
> that to my ear,
> this sequences represents a linear progression in
> sound; "aw" is between
> "ah" and "or" etc.
>
> 1. "ah" This occurs in "father", "water", etc, but
> also in the words
>    marked in my dictionary as possessing of a "short
> o" sound: Bob, cot,
>    dog, fog, got, etc.
>
> 2. "aw"  This occurs at the end of words like "caw"
> and "law", and also
>     before "dark" L, as in "call", "fall", etc.
>
> 3. "or" This sound does include the rhotic, but the
> quality of the o
>    there, even without the r-coloring, never occurs
> in my 'lect without
>    the following 'r'.  Example: "oratory".
>
> 4. "oh" This is the regular "long o" sound I have in
> "bone", "cope",
>    "dome", "go", etc.
>
>
> That sets my context.  Now what is the issue you
> find between "short o"
> and "aw"?
>
> -Marcos
>
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