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> From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Steg Belsky
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 8:30 PM
> To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Subject: Re: Personal adjectives (was: Fruitful typos (was: Vulgar
> Latin))
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:19:07 -0600 Daniel Seriff <microtonal@...>
> writes:
> > BTW, what exactly is the IPA representation of the vowel in "Dan"
> > (American pronunciation)? In British English, I think it's a pretty
> > straight /&/. But American; maybe /&~/ or /A~/? Somewhere between? I
> > don't know. That doesn't seem quite right.
> Not *that* vowel again!
> Most American dialects seem to limit it to an allophone of /&/ before
> liquids:
> "care", "bail".
> The dialect of the NYC Metro Area extends it to other words like "grass",
> "crash", "bad".
That's used in NYC? I thought that was a Southern thing. I've noticed Dan
Rather saying things like [kre@S], and a lot of people say [meiZ@r] for
<measure>. I don't think I've ever noticed it before a /d/ as in <bad>
though.
Eric Christopherson
raccoon@elknet.net