Re: THEORY: Vowel shift (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

At 9:59 am -0400 18/6/99, John Cowan wrote:
>Various people wrote:
>
>Andrew:  Is this different to the vowel shift that is effecting the Southern
>         England dialect group?
>
>John:    I believe so, but I don't have enough specifics to be sure.
>
>Charles: I hope not:
>         http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/ICSLP4.html
>
>Raymond: and I know not  :)
>
>Andrew said "Is this different?" and I replied "I believe so",
>viz. "I believe it's different".
OOoops - so you did.  Trouble is I read these things too early in the
morning before the first imbibition of caffeine has had its effect.


Charles and Ray say "I hope not"
>and "I know not", but their evidence is that it *is* different;
>i.e. they agree with me.
>
>Ah, the English language.
No, just our obtuseness  :)

Ray.