Re: THEORY: language and the brain [Interesting article]
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 7, 2003, 9:05 |
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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.
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>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
[u] [u:]
luck look
buck book
ruck rook
Friar Tuck Pippin Took
Pete
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