Re: The fourteen vowels of English?

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 11:42:11PM +0200, Steven Williams wrote:
> I have a funny little split I noticed in my dialect
> (standard American, mild Southern influence). In
> certain words, I pronounce [&] something like [&@],
> and in others, it's straight [&]. Examples:
>
> /man/ [m&@n] (or [mn=] in compounds where it's
This is where we differ.  My /&/ is just [&] before /n/; it's only [&@] (or
something like it) before voiced *velars*, nasal or not (i.e. /g/ and
/N/, but not /k/ or /m/ or /n/).  If you listen to the B-52s song "Love
Shack", the "bang" in "Bang! Bang!  On the door baby!" has the same
diphthong I hear in my speech.


-Marcos

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