Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

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From: "Joseph Fatula" <fatula3@...>
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Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)


> From: "Joe" <joe@...>
> Subject: Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)
>
>
> > "Yur muthur was a hahmstur, en jur fothur smelt of eldurberries"
> >
> >  I can't choose between |a| and |o| for the [a] in father.
>
> What a-type vowels do they distinguish in England?  Over here, we
> distinguish /&/, /a/, /A/, and /O/, not counting schwa-reductions.
>
By a-type I take it you mean orthographically represented by |a|..

/&/ and /A:/.  Possibly /O:/ as well, if you count |aw|, but I wouldn't. In
the north, there are a lot more instances of /&/, /A:/ being applied only to
|ar|, and some word like "father"

For instance:

          South    North
grass  /grA:s/   /gr&s/
hat     /h&?/     /h&t/
bar    /bA:/     /bA:/

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