THEORY: Vowel shift (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)
From: | Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...> |
Date: | Friday, June 18, 1999, 5:18 |
At 10:31 am -0700 17/6/99, Charles wrote:
>John Cowan wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Smith wrote:
>>
>> > Is this different to the vowel shift that is effecting the Southern
>> > England dialect group?
>>
>> I believe so, but I don't have enough specifics to be sure.
>
>I hope not:
>
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ICSLP4.html
and I know not :)
I was born & brought up in Southern England, now live there again, and have
had family (siblings, parents, uncles, aunts, cousins) who've lived there
all their lives. What is this vowel shift we're supposed to be
experiencing in this neck of the woods?
Ray.