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Re: IPA for the Vowel in "good"

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, July 27, 2001, 18:46
John Cowan wrote:
>> (That NYC form, IMHO, is at best fast speech/unstressed; it's more likely
to
>> be [h3:d] or [h@:d], lower and definitely more central, I think, than
your
>> [U_c]. I at least can't make your min.pr. convincingly. ) > >Actually, it is neither. "Heard" is [hVjd], the same vowel as in >"oyster" [Vjst@]. Most people outside the city hear this as /Oj/ >in /@R/ words, and /@R/ in /Oj/ words: "hoid", "erster".
Well, you live there, and I don't (anymore) :-)..... Is that pronunciation still current? I know it's the caricatured Brooklyn accent, but thought it was dying out. (I lived in Brooklyn, and can barely recall hearing it, even some 30 years ago.) More generic r-less Eastern speech would, I think, have [3:] in "heard, bird", etc Apparently [Vj] or [@j] was also found in Deep South (New Orleans/Delta area), where it was considered quite upper-class (Tennessee Williams had it-- there's a recording of him reading a story "The Yellow Bird" [bVjd].)

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