Re: question on sampa representation

At 5:26 PM -0500 3/24/03, John Cowan wrote:
>Joe Fatula scripsit:
>
>> - put book foot
>> - pull rule ghoul fool
>> - putter pun rough lung judge
>
>This is all copacetic for my dialect, except for "pull", which belongs in the
>"put" set.  In the set you have it in, it would be homonymous with "pool".
In a sound change currently underway in the Western US, the tense/lax distinction
is disappearing before /l/, so the words 'pull' and 'pool' are homophonous, as
are 'heel/hill', 'peel/pill', and 'sale/sell'. My wife, who is from Minnesota,
finds this incredibly amusing, especially when the neighbor kids keep yelling
at their dog to "Hill!". We also see signs advertising stuff "for sell".

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                                               Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

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fact." - Stephen Anderson

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