Re: Scouse final plosives (was: vowel descriptions)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 16, 1998, 23:32 |
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Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> The fricative release after final /t/ seems to me closer to [T] in soun=
d,
> but it is not the standard dental [T]; it is an _alveolar_ fricative wh=
ich
> otherwise does not occur in the dialect.
Wow -- that's really interesting. Do you have any idea when
this phenomenon began to occur? Is it one of those dialectal
phenomena that's been around for centuries, but just few people,
except those in the area, talk about?
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Tom Wier <twier@...>
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