Re: [IE conlangs]]
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 13, 1999, 0:08 |
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Steg Belsky wrote:
> In the NYC / Long Island area /&/ before nasals and /s/ (grass, can, ran,
> Sam, bass, damn, fast; but it seems not before /N/) becomes the diphthong
> [e@]. It also happens in other words, such as "bad" and "stab".
Well, those are both voiced stops... does it also happen with "bag"? If so,
then you have a soundlaw in operation there. If not, then it might be that
your vowel breaking (diphthongization) there might specificly exclude
velar consonants. Which would be an interesting soundlaw.
BTW, does it also happen to & / _z ? As in "as" or "frazzled" or something
like that.
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