Re: PA dialect (was: Re: i'm reforming one of my conlangs)

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:

> > Den 12. des. 2008 kl. 22.00 skrev Carl Banks:> > > I am not the biggest
> expert on dialectal English, but I've never > > heard of au being pronounced
> /&U/ in any English dialect, only > > foreign languages.
>
> If that "&" means [æ] (ash), I have.

I read Carl's message the same way you did at first, but then realized he
was referring to the spelling |au| being pronounced as the spelling /aU/,
not to fine distinctions among the pronunciations of that diphthong.  I took
|au| as /aU/ in "hause", and he pointed out that such a combination of
spelling and pronunciation is somewhere between very rare and nonexistent in
English.

 I don't think there's really any dispute that many Anglophones start the
diphthong off with something that is approximately [æ].

-- 
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>