Re: Terminology defsq

Nik Taylor scripsit:
>
> John Cowan wrote:
> > I say /INgUlf/, /INgordZ/, /INgejdZ/ /@n+gIldId/, /AngowIN/.
> > "Ungilded" has a definite juncture, and "ongoing" has initial stress,
> > which probably account for the lack of assimilation.
>
> Interesting.  I definitely have /ng/, at least in isolation.  I think
> that in the middle of a sentance, it's /InNgVlf/, I've tried saying
> sentences using that word, and it seems to have an epenthetic /N/
> between the /n/ and the /g/, however, pure /INgVlf/ sounds somewhat odd.
>
> You're somewhere in England, yes?
No.  I live in Merrie Olde New York, but my idiolect comes from just outside
the New York metropolitan dialect boundary.

> I'm in north Florida, USA.
Ah.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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