Re: YAEPT (was Re: Stress and consonants)

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On Oct 24, 2006, at 11:37 PM, David J. Peterson wrote:

> The phonetics professor down at UCSD has actually picked up
> on the idea, and has been running some tests on a couple English
> phenomena.  She's worked a bit with the tap/flap, and also words
> like "prince"/"prints"; "mints"/"mince", etc.  Some people say the
> pairs of words are identical; some say they're totally different;
> some confuse the two...  I think preliminary results are showing
> that the two are, in fact, pronounced differently, both by those
> who claim they're identical, and those who say they're different.
Interesting! I know that in some Canadian dialects, including my own
if I'm speaking in a relaxed way, there's often an epenthetic 't'
sound inserted between 'l' and 's' - so words like "Wilson" and
"else" sound like "Wiltson" and "eltse." Haven't observed enough yet
to know if it's universal or just after a stressed vowel, but I have
noticed it, and American friends have commented on it...

Doug

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