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Re: New Language

From:John Fisher <john@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 18, 1998, 22:55
In message <7729150.42027496@...>, Sam Bryant
<Sam_Bryant@...> writes
>> >>> Though I am not a native english speaker, I am also puzzled by >> >>> your /a/ ("ahh" vs. "dot"? It doesn't seem to be the same sound). >> >>Depends on your dialect. In mine, "ahh" and "dot" have the same sound. >> >>In other dialects (I think), they're different. I think that "dot" uses >> >>/O/ in some dialects, but I'm not sure. > >In mine the vowel in <dot> is noticable higher than that of, say, "father", >though I don't think it gets all the way up to /O/ (but I've never been sure >I'm able to distiguish catagorically /E/ and /O/ from /e/ and /o/ in my own and >other's speech).
Like most Brits with RP or RP-ish accents, for me the vowel in <dot> is a low, back rounded vowel, different from /O/ or /o/ or the vowel in "father". English accents vary an enormous amount in their vowels. -- John Fisher john@drummond.demon.co.uk johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk Elet Anta website: http://www.drummond.demon.co.uk/anta/ Drummond ro cleshfan merec; fanye litoc, inye litoc