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Re: vowel descriptions

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 15, 1998, 23:09
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:48:51 -0600 Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
writes:
>Nik Taylor wrote: >> > a (in dot, faught; open 'a')
>> This varies greatly from dialect to dialect, but always a low vowel. >> For me, it's either back or central low unrounded.
>No kidding: in many American dialects, those two words he listedare >phonemically two >distinct vowels: /O/ and /A/. Not in mine, but >a lot, especially out East.
Here in NYC it's also two different vowels, /a/ and /O/. -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]