Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)

Muke Tever spake:

> There's nothing wrong with /au/ > /eu/ (it is after
> all parallel to /ai/ > /ei/)... doesnt something
> like that happen in some Southern [American]
> dialects?
I've personally never heard [aU] as [EU] in serious
speech, and I live in the South myself--Florida for
practically all my cognizant, language-using life.
[EU] would be heard as /o/ by both Rebel and Yankee.
[aU] is more like [&U] in the South, though I could
see where one'd say [EU] to poke fun at the South and
Southerners. I personally would use [EU] to stereotype
the British /o/ (which is [@U]), but not everyone's an
accent junkie like me.

You see this very thing in making fun of the
Canadians, who are stereotyped as saying [@."bu-t]
(or, if you're going to extremes, [@."byt]) for
/about/, when they really say something like
[@."bOUt]. Standard USAian is [@.'baUt], by the way.

[wIr u-t n=d @."bu-t In DV hu-s wIT mI mu-s]

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"All idols must die."

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