Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

From: "John Cowan" <jcowan@...>
Subject: Re: Probability of Article Replacement?


> Tristan scripsit:
>
> > American [Y](?) ones.)
>
> I don't know any AmE speakers that have front rounded vowels.
>
> > (But from what I've heard of it, Cockney is much scarier. But at any
> > rate, the non-rhotic vowels are different enough from the American ones
> > that rhotic American who had never come across non-rhotic speech would
> > probably have a hard enough time with it.)
>
> Hard to avoid, given the non-rhotic Eastern Seaboard cities (except
> Philadelphia), the non-rhotic South, non-rhotic RP speakers on TV and
> movies (lots of RP villains), and non-rhotic African American English
> varieties.
Non-rhotic cities?  Count out New York as well.  The Bronx is still
generally non-rhotic, but the rest of the city is rhotic these days.
(Though I haven't been into Queens really, so I don't know about that area.)