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Re: New Englishisms

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, March 15, 1999, 15:43
Don Blaheta wrote:

> It's _very_ striking in some people's speech. I've tracked it down to > primarily the area around Hartford, CT; the rule is that /t/ goes to [?] > at the end of a stressed syllable.
Are you sure? I have [?] for [/t/ only before syllabic [n], which all three of your examples below exhibit. Otherwise I have [*] (flap-r) intervocalically.
> Thus, > "Manhattan" and "Latin" and even "important" each have a strong glottal > stop in them.
I make them [m&n 'h&? n<syl>], ['l&? n<syl>], [Im 'pOr? n<syl>t] and AFAIK I always have. I come from New Jersey, just outside the "New York City" isogloss. If I say "Manhattam" (which I don't normally), it comes out [m&n 'ha* m<syl>], with no [?]. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)