Re: The fourteen vowels of English?

 --- Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> schrieb:

> *heared /ir\/ [Is there such a word at all??]
Nope, though in some people's speech (usually
uneducated), it is a plausible word; at least, I've
heard it before around here.

> haired /Er\/ [Is that even a word??]
'Red-haired.'

> had /&/
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
unstressed)
/calque/ [k&lk]
/sat/ [s&t]
/happy/ [h&.pi]
/fare/ [f&r\] or [fEr\]
/nab/ [n&@b]
/nap/ [n&p]
/hang/ [h&N] or [hEN]
/nag/ [n&@g]
/had/ [h&@d]
/has/ [h&z]
/ham/ [h&@m]

I can't think of any minimal pairs, so this seems to
be a complementary distribution, where [&@] is an
allophone of [&] before nasals [m] and [n] and voiced
plosives and [&] is the phonetic realization every
where else. Depending on the stress of the word and
personal whim, [&] before [N] and [r\] seems to be,
allophonically, either [E] or [&]. I tend to lean
towards [&] more in higher registers of speech, where
I make an effort to be understood clearly, and [E] in
fast speech, since it's easier to articulate quickly.

Anyone else have this speech characteristic? It's very
common around where I live (central Florida) and seems
to be just a general American phonetic phenomenon.

> HUD /V/ [Would anyone be so kind as to look through
> their dictionary to see
> if there are any words [hVd]?]
In America, there's a government organization called
'HUD' (Housing and Urban Development, I think), and
it's usually pronounced that way. At least, I
pronounce the acronym that way.

> hoard /@U)r\/
> hoed /@U)/
General American seems to be [OU] or something
similar. Just out of curiosity, which dialect are you
speaking?

> how'd /&U)/
That's a characteristic of Southern speech; [ai] comes
out as [&I] in some people's speech, but it's almost
invariably [&U] with [au]. Also, Southerners tend to
lean more towards pronouncing [&] as [&@] than those
who speak standard American.

> A quick question: I've seen /EI)/, e.g., as well as
> /Ej)/. Is there a
> difference?
Not really. [EI] if you want to be really exact about
the onset and end of a diphthong, [Ej] if you don't
feel like or can't tell the difference between the
elements [i] and [I] in a diphthong. I think [j] is
closer to [I] than [i], at least as I pronounce it.

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