Re: [YAPT] Judge my vowels
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 26, 2004, 18:24 |
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:20:08PM -0400, Roger Mills wrote:
> umlauted a does not > E
in Swiss German . . . but it does in High German, yes?
> if you listen closely it sounds like Bostonian /a/ before /r/, the
> closest analogue in US dialects (listen to old recordings of JFK or
> Bobby K. or early Ted K. [present-day Ted seems to have toned down his
> accent]).
Yeah. I think of the first |o| in native pronunciation of "Boston", or
the |a| in native pronunciation of "Chicago", as more or less canonical
[a]s (although bad impressions of those accents tend to exaggerate by
putting [&] there). Most of the other sounds normally transcribed as
[a] (such as that of High German "Bad", or the usual |a| of the Romance
languages) seem to be more central.
-Marcos
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