Re: tSat: Re: 'tEst 'pli:z ig'nOr\
| From: | Aquamarine Demon <aquamarine_demon@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 2, 2007, 7:44 |
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>> > > > You pronounce "off" with the same vowel as "all"?
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> 'Deed I do. I do not have the cot/caught merger. There was
> a chance, way back in 1941, that I might have grown up in
> California...but apparently my father couldn't find a job
> there. Ow well, je ne regrette rien.
How specifically Californian is LOT-THOUGHT merger nowadays, anyway?<<
I'm told by my linguistics professor that the cot-caught merger is a
western thing, not just a California thing (there really aren't many
things distinctly Californian, anyway; us Westerners all sound sort of the
same, west of Texas, anyways). I'm a native Nevadan, and I do have the
cot/caught merger, and I also pronounce "off" and "all" with the same
vowel sound. I practically never hear anyone pronounce cot and caught
differently; granted, I'm neighboring California, but still, I think it's
pretty widespread.
*goes back to bewildered lurking*
The Aquamarine Demon
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