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Re: [YAPT] Judge my vowels

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, July 26, 2004, 18:24
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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