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Re: yeah (was Re: Moraic codas)

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 17, 2001, 16:08
Tom Tadfor Little wrote:
> >>Andreas Johansson wrote: >> >>>Hm, I usually pronounce "yeah" something like [jE:_@]. Presumeably, I've >>>picked up that from one group of native speakers or another - how does >>>the >>>rest of us pronounce it? > >It's [j&:] for me. But when I see "yea" in a literary context (Elizabethan >dialog, for example), I read it as [jE:@] or even [jei], something with >relatively higher articulation. Do others make this distinction?
I learnt "yea" = [je_i] in school. I rather like "yea" and "nay", prehaps because they resemble Swedish "ja" [jA:] and "nej" [nEj] more than does "yes" and "no". Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>