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Re: þe getisbyrg adres

From:Michael Potter <mhpotter@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 3, 2004, 22:35
Mark P. Line wrote:
> I think the voiceless phoneme must still be alive in some lects. I have > it, including minimal pairs "which/witch", "what/watt", "whether/weather" > etc. I was born (in 1956) and raised in the South Midland dialect band of > the US, in northeastern Oklahoma. Most of my vowels have adapted somewhat > to SAE, but my consonants are generally the same as my mom's and > siblings'. >
At risk of stepping into YAEPT, I must say that not only is [W] still alive, but it is being passed down to the younger generations. I was born in 1983, and I've always lived in southeast Tennessee. Almost everybody around here (including myself) has "which" and "witch", for example, as distinct words. I also have /nju/ for "new", and /tjuzdi/ for "Tuesday". A lot of people 40 and up also have /stjupId/ for "stupid", among other things, especially in the rural areas.
> My speech also seems to be an outlier in its complete lack of alveolar or > even velarized alveolar laterals: all my laterals are velar (apical > articulator below the bottom teeth), in all contexts. This causes me to > have a voiceless velar lateral allophone (in forms like "clay") that even > Ken Pike said he didn't think ever occurred even phonetically in any > natlang. *shrug* >
I have alveolar laterals, but I also have the "clay" form that you have. How would you write that in CXS, anyway? I guess I need to start listening to people talking, instead of just hearing them. I'm the only one that can, though, because a real phonetician's head would explode after the first "I". :) -- Michael

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