Re: Chinese Dialect Question

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:01:34PM -0400, Paul Bennett wrote:
> Given the local vowel distribution, it's more likely to be [pAf]
> and [pAvz] than [paf] and [pavz].
Yeah, sorry, wasn't paying attention to the vowel  (or I would probably
have written [p&f]).

> It's part of my lowest-register idiolect, and likewise for most
> of my cohorts aged from childhood up to full adulthood, in
> moderately urban areas around the immediate north-west of London.
> However, word-initially, [T] and [D] seem to retain their values
> in all my idiolects.  Pronouncing "think" as [fInk] has the
> hallmark of a typically London-and-parts-eastwards accent than it
> does of the accents I grew up with.
Very interesting.  Fanks!  :)

-Mark