Re: Woody or tinny?
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 23, 2001, 2:01 |
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Bjorn Kristinsson scripsit:
> Another thing I found in the black American Dialect was that they have some
> level of TH-fronting, like Cockneys. I haven't been able to look into this
> in any detail, but from what I've heard, they front their /þ/ and /ð/ sounds
> to both /f/ and /v/ like Cockneys do, and also /d/ (I never noticed a /t/,
> but it's possible that it's there.)
My observation is that final /T/ and /D/ become /f/ and /v/, but medial
occurrences become /t/ and /d/. The first point is sometimes preserved
even in acrolects: I had a professor who spoke entirely General American
except that he said /m&f/ for "math".
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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--Douglas Hofstadter
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