Re: Personal langs and converse of aux

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>>There are other oddities, too, in people's phonetic ability.  I can
>>pronounce the rounded front vowels without too much difficulty, but I
>>can't distinguish [o] from [C>
>
>
>West Coast dialect, principally.  But I'd have to hear it to believe it.
>Coat/caught?
>low/law? sow, sew/saw? row/raw?
Which sound is written in the above as [C> ? Is it the back, open-mid
rounded vowel? (What I would write as /O/)

If so...

I hail from California, and this too is a problem for me (even though
Montreiano has it......i thought i'd introduce it to give me some
difficulties. However, nonstandard dialects dont distinguish it either ;).


For me, low, sew, and row are pronounced the same, as is law, saw, and raw.

Anyway, do any of you know what typically distinguishes the accent in
Coastal California? I'ts been almost impossible for me to find anything
definate that talks about it. There's a bit of a difference between the
coast and say Fresno which is inland.....i have a friend from there who
says pen and pin the same: /pIn/.

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Yours truly,

Cesar Javier Jaime Garcia