Re: USAGE: Permissable /IN/ (was: [i:]=[ij]?)

On 4 Nov, Nik Taylor wrote:

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> My pronunciation's rather unusual.
>Apparently based on a pronunciation picked up from a speech therapist...
Just out of professional curiosity, Nik, did you mean

1.)  you informally copied the therapist's own dialect
        (which, I take it, was different from the surrounding
          dialect)?

2.) you were formally taught to speak that way
    in therapy (even though it was not like the dialect
    of the speakers among whom you lived)?

Why I ask, is that, as far as I was taught, speech therapy is supposed
to make a client's speech conform _more_  to the norms of the
his speech community, not  _less_!

Dan Sulani

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