Re: New Language

In message <7729150.42027496@...>, Sam Bryant
<Sam_Bryant@...> writes
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>>> Though I am not a native english speaker, I am also puzzled by
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>>> your /a/ ("ahh" vs. "dot"? It doesn't seem to be the same sound).
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>>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
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>>/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.

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