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Re: THEORY: language and the brain [Interesting article]

From:Apollo Hogan <apollo@...>
Date:Monday, July 7, 2003, 14:54
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Peter Bleackley wrote:

> Staving Mark J Reed: > >On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:59:07AM +0100, Peter Bleackley wrote: > > > I pronounce "book", "look", and "Took" to rhyme with "spook". This would be > > > normal in northern English pronunciations. > > > >Okay, but how do you pronounce "spook"? :) > > > >A contrasting pair in my speech is "look" (which which "book" rhymes) > >and "Luke" (with which "spook" rhymes). I have personally always pronounced > >Took to rhyme with the former. Which I thought was how at least Gandalf > >pronounced it in the movies, but that could just be because that's what > >I was expecting to hear. > > Let me guess... you pronounce "look" as a near homophone with "luck"? I don't. > It sounds more like "Luke" to me, and does rhyme with "spook". Presumably > we can divide English dialects into length contrastive and tense/lax > contrastive. > My speech is length contrastive, and so in the table below, words rhyme > down columns and contrast across rows
Just to pipe in here, I pronounce all three differently (I like that minimal pair, btw) look = /lUk/ Luke = /lu:k/ luck = /lvk/ --Apollo (My first contribution to an English pronounciation thread :-)

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