Re: Tit'xka (Pretty Long Post)

Tom Wier wrote:
>
> Eric Christopherson wrote:
>
> > My apologies. Of course by [^] I meant [V] :) ( Looks more like ^ to
> > me :) )   So [hVit_dT], [hViT].
>
> Really? People say that up there? Wow.  Do you live close to the
> Canadian border? That looks like a perfect example of "Canadian
> raising"  (which means the standard [a] in [ai] moves up to an [@]
> or [V]).
Not that close, eh! I live in southernmost Wisconsin. That is a
Canadianism, but unlike Canadians, we around here don't have [Vu] as
an allophone of [au].