Re: OT Marx Brothers (was Re: Another Introduction)
| From: | And Rosta <a.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 15, 2003, 2:37 |
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Stone Gordonssen
> >Is it /'sIn@m@/ or /'sIn@mA:/? For Americans, I mean
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> Depends on where in the USA, since we Americans don't speak so
> homogenously/cohesively as do all peoples in the UK or Australia. :-)
What are the variant pronunciations and what's their regional
distribution? (Approximately, if you know.)
> In my dialect, it's ["sIn@ma].
What's that phonemically? The final [a], I mean.
> In my parents', it would have been ["sin@m@]
Is that a change to the phonemic composition of the word? Again,
what is this pronunciation phonemically?
> but would have been perceived by them as being either archaic or an attempt
> to put on airs. They'd have said _pictures_ ["pIktSVr'z] or ["pItsVr's]
Is that last a typo for [tS], or did they really say "pitsers"?
Given what John said about _cinema_ in AmE, I don't understand how
_cinema_ alternates with _pictures_.
--And.
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