Re: USAGE: Shaw alphabet (was Re: USAGE: Con-graphies)

--- Joe <joe@...> schrieb:

> As far as I can tell, [&] seems to break in American
> dialects before nasals.  So, 'dance' is /d&ns/
> [d&@ns].  That's just from my rightpondian
> perspective though.
Precisely! And it's taken even further in some
Southern USAian dialects, where /&/ breaks to [&@]
before _all_ voiced sounds (and there's similar
breakage in certain other vowel sounds, most notably
/I/).

cat [k&t]
cab [k&:b] (usual) [k&@b] (Southern)
can [k&@n]

I think I asked a question to the list on this topic a
while ago, maybe six months or a year ago, and it was
explained to me that voiced sounds, especially nasals,
have a tendency to lengthen preceding vowel sounds,
and in some dialects, this triggers breaking in
certain conditioned environments. Makes sense.

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