Re: The fourteen vowels of English?

 --- Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> schrieb:
> Muke Tever wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:56:50 -0400, Trebor Jung
> <treborjung@...>
> > wrote:
> > > *heared /ir\/ [Is there such a word at all??]
> >
> > Not standardly.  But there is the *hered
> underlying words from Latin
> > _haerere_ like "adhered" (stuck to) and "inhered"
> (was inherent) and
> > "cohered" (stuck together/was coherent), which may
> be homophonous for you.
> >
> "Heared" for heard was definitely stigmatized in my
> grade-school years, not
> only by the teachers but by the rest of us
> middle-class kids.
>
> Interesting about the root -here.  For me, cohere,
> adhere both have [Ir\] in
> that form, as well as in "coherent, adherent".  I
> think I've written
> "inhere" in some academic paper or other, but never
> spoken it.  My first
> reaction on seeing it here was to pronounce
> [In'hE\r], since that's the
> vowel in my "inherent, inherit"
> --------------------------------------
> Might as well comment on Steve W's and Tom Wier's
> posts-- seems to me the
> schwa-offglide of [&] in monosyllables before voiced
> stops/nasals surely
> correlates with the length, probably occasioned by
> the tongue movement from
> low in the mouth to a new (generally higher)
> position.
>
> The offglide disappears in bisyllabic forms--
> contrast [k&@b] 'cab',
> ['k&bn=] 'cabin', [b&@g] ['b&giN] bag, bagging.  Is
> this also true of
> Southern dialects where the diphthong is more
> noticeable?
Yeah, actually, the diphthong does disappear in
bisyllabic forms. I pronounce the words exactly the
same as the examples given above. As for those I hear
with pure Southern accents, the diphthong seems to
level out. Some lose the diphthong altogether, while
some seem to just smooth it out a bit. You only sound
the diphthong out in all its off-glidey glory if
you're making fun of Southerners, at least in my experience.


	

	
		
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