Re: yeah (was Re: Moraic codas)
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 17, 2001, 16:08 |
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Tom Tadfor Little wrote:
>
>>Andreas Johansson wrote:
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>>>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
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