Re: Californian vowels [was Re: Liking German]
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 1, 2001, 10:17 |
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Jeff Jones scripsit:
> Wouldn't [sp@idR] be "spiter", not "spider"? I thought Canadian Raising
> applied only before an originally voiceless consonant.
That's what's funny: "spider", like "writer", seems to have underlying /t/
for such speakers.
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