Re: CHAT: Vowel shift - angry-beaverisms

BP Jonsson scripsit:

> I met one American who thought that intonation was due to Swedish/Norwegian
> substrate influence.  His imitation surely sounded as if that could be
> true, but then his wife was Swedish...  Altho most Swedish and Norwegian
> dialects have a system of distinct word tones, which gives the sentence
> intonation a quality that is peculiar to speakers of other Germanic
> languages, they are not uniform among themselves.  I guess Matt is the only
> one who can judge this theory! :)
Certainly there has been heavy immigration to that area, and it is
generally assumed that the local accent is a substrate effect.
I don't know that anyone has examined it with a professional eye.

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John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
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