Re: Critique sought
| From: | Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 18, 1999, 21:45 |
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> > Y'mean, like "pin", "pen", and "pan", all of which are pronounced very
> > similarly to each other by my sister: [p(h)In], [p(h)In], [p(h)e:n]
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> Are you sure you don't mean [p_hE:n] for that last one?
> The vowel [e] in most transcription systems most closely
> approximates the vowel in English <pain>.
Yup--I'm still really weak on ASCII IPA.
> Yeah, actually, there's a name for it: The Great Northern
> Cities Shift. William Labov did a famous study on it: