Re: another silly phonology question

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 02:20:35PM +0100, BP Jonsson wrote:
> At 06:43 2000-11-29 +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> >One also hears /nVfIn/ and /nVfn=/ and, strangely, /nV?n/.
>
> In my experience Anglophones from all parts except Scotland say [nV?n] for
> "nothing" and [dI?n] "didn't" [wU?n] "wouldn't" [SU?n] "shouldn't"
> too.  You're mostly not aware of it, anymore than Swedes are of saying
> ['IntIN] or [In'tiN] for _ingenting_ 'nothing'.
Hmm, so the /d/ of didn't/wouldn't/shouldn't becomes [?] too... interesting.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo