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Re: New Try from a New Guy

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, December 15, 2002, 9:38
On Sunday 15 December 2002 9:02 am, Joseph Fatula wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Josh Roth" <Fuscian@...> > To: <CONLANG@...> > Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 8:51 PM > Subject: Re: New Try from a New Guy > > > (and various people said a lot of stuff) > > > That’s just what I was going to say, except that the second element seems > > higher to me in each, so they'd be something like [Ai] and [{u]. I think > > some > > > Southern English uses [a] in the first diphthong, and some also drop the > > [i], > > > so you can have a distinction like 'cot' [kAt] and 'kite' [kat]. And here > > in > > > New York at least, /Ai/ has an allophone [Vi] that occurs before unvoiced > > consonants. Further up north, like in Canada (and Minnesota maybe, and > > other > > > places maybe), /{u/ seems to have an allophone [Vu] or [@u] before > > unvoiced > > > consonants. > > Um... now I think I'm even worse off. Let me explain some of the vowels > that are phonemic in the way I speak English. I don't know what dialect > exactly it represents, but here they are: > > /a/ as in father > /A/ as in cot > /O/ as in caught > /@/ as in cut > > These vowels don't seem to have any diphthongization at all. Does this > make sense? For background, I'm from New York, not the city, very close to > Massachusetts, but lots of influence from parents, family, etc. from > Philadelphia, and I now live in California.
Um... /A/ is in father, and /a/ is in Cot. I think cut is useually /V/, but I don't know about you.

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Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>