Re: Case/Tense question
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 10, 2000, 10:29 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> Steg Belsky wrote:
> > I just remembered....also in my dialect it's somewhat differentiated, {I}
> > is /aj/, but contractions such as {i'm} and {i'll} lose the /j/, being
> > usually pronounced as /am/ and /al/. So maybe {i'll} could lead to /a/,
> > distinguised from /e/ ?
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> Interesting. Is that a common phenomenon? Comments from elsewhere?
Yeah, I use /aim/ for <I'm> but [Al(:)] for <I'll>, with the */l/ usually being
slightly lengthened in compensation for the lost /i/. I often also say /hIl/ for
<he'll>, /SIl/ for <she'll>, /wIl/ for <we'll>, [DEl(:)] for <they'll>; and also
/rIli/ for <really>. It must be an allegro speech phenomenon or something...
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