Re: CHAT: The [+foreign] attribute

Quoting bnathyuw <bnathyuw@...>:

>  --- "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> wrote:
> >
> > I dunno.  My impression is that people mark
> > [+foreign] in the context with which they are most
> > familiar.  Last time we had this discussion, I
> > mentioned the woman in Britain who invited
> > my professor to a restaurant that served
> > [f@dZaIt@z],
>
> me : [f@xi:t3U]
Right.  I am well aware that there are many people in
Britain who know how the word is pronounced in Spanish.
It was only an example of the phenomenon under discussion,
and was not intended as a stereotype.  (This woman also,
FWIW, pronounced <Tejano> as [t@'dZ&n3u].)

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