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

From:Daniel Seriff <microtonal@...>
Date:Thursday, November 2, 2000, 20:33
Roger Mills wrote:

> Aha. I was going to ask for examples. Agreed that for some > dialects/idiolects the norm for /i/ before /N/ may vary. As for "being": > I can envision "pedantic fast speech" e.g. 'you're being [bi:N] ridiculous', > or similarly 'I'm seeing [si:N] her tonight'. I call this pedantic, because > in ordinary fast speech the N would > n. So [i:N] or [iN] may be > phonetically possible, but still not phonemically. Also, as Dan Seriff > pointed out, being, seeing etc. are 2 syllables-- also 2 morphemes-- so they > don't really count.
I didn't even thing about rapid speech. After about 10 seconds of experimentation, I still pronounce those as two syllables, although as Roger stated the /N/ -> /n/. There's also just a touch of /j/: /bi.jIn/. I've never actually sat down and analyzed my idiolect, but I'd be interested to do so (if I ever had time ;). My accent is relatively neutral, as I grew up in northern Virginia, just outside the Beltway. Living in Nashville for the past six years has altered my pronunciation of certain words a little. My pronunciation of the suffix -ville has degenerated into simply /vl/, and if I ever need to refer to Louisville, KY, it's even worse: /lu.w@.vl/. That schwa is about as short as is humanly possible to make. I'll have to think about my pronunciation more now. -- Daniel Seriff microtonal@sericap.com http://members.tripod.com/microtonal Si iterum insanum me appelles, oculum alterum tuum edem. Wenn du mich nochmal verrückt nennst, werde ich deine andere Auge essen.