Re: USAGE: Shaw alphabet (was Re: USAGE: Con-graphies)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 11, 2006, 14:14 |
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On 6/11/06, daniel prohaska <danielprohaska@...> wrote:
> I've communicated to some US speakers who have the impression that vowels
> are "long" before <ng>, so that <king> is /kiN/ rather than expected /kIN/.
True in my 'lect.
> So maybe this extends to /ns/ as well and <dance> is /dens/ and not /d&ns/.
Not true in my 'lect. Rather, /&/ breaks before nasals, so its
phonetic realization in "dance" something like [&@]; in extreme
Southern dialects that's exaggerated to something like [&:j@].
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>