Re: (Warning: DEP) vowel to velar offglide (was Re: Paxba-Sazena Lexicon in developement

 --- Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote: > Rachel
Klippenstein wrote:
> > Do voiced velars tend to cause an i-type off-glide
> on
> > a preceding voewl?  I think I may have one in leg
> - it
> > doesn't sound like quite the same vowel as in ten
> pr
> > bed or peck, and more definitely, I have an i-like
> > off-glide after & (=ae digraph) before [g] and
> [N], so
> > I have a different vowel in bag and bang
> (something
> > like [&I] or [&i] than in back or bad (just plain
> > [&]).  (My brother even tends to say these with a
> > vowel something like [eI], so bag is for him
> [beIg]
> >
> Yes. You're likely to get a transitional vowel sound
> any time the tongue has
> to move from one extreme position to another, as
> from low front [&] to
> bunched-up-in-back [g]. Also, the fact that
> Engl.stressed vowels are
> lengthened before voiced final consonants abets
> this, and in a sense the
> glide-vowel is substituting for part of the length--
> so you don't hear much
> of a glide before a final k. Your particular
> examples suggest there may be a
> little Southern-US influence; is that possible?
Definitely not.  Both my parents are Canadian and Have
lived in Canada almost all their lives (except 3 years
in England around when I was born), so I and my
siblings have also grown up in Canada, on the we(s)t
coast of British Columbia to be a bit more precise.

<snip>

Rachel

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