Re: The fourteen vowels of English?

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:42:11 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?q?Steven=20Williams?=
<feurieaux@...> 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
>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.
I've read of the minimal pair /k&n/ (modal verb) vs. /kE@n/ ('to put into
cans'). Do you really have this?

gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust

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