Re: Questions about Schwa and Stress and "y'all"

At 04.14 a.m. 15.10.2001 -0400, you wrote:
>     That's funny; I had a discussion with a person about this.  See, I'd
>never say "thuh apple tree" (something like [D@?&pL=tri]) because it's just
>too damn difficult.  I also wouldn't say [D&pL=tri] because it just doesn't
>sound right.  I always say [Di] before words that begin with vowels because
>then you can just glide into the word, so you say , [Dij&pL=tri].  It's far
>easier and more natural for me.
Yes. I agree entirely. But my dialect does _everything_ in its power to
avoid hiatus (I think; two consecutive non-diphthongal vowels). Of course,
that isn't to say that the [i] doesn't become a [@] (thus making it
[D@j&p@ltSri:]), but the phoneme there must be a /i/ for the glide to get in.

Tristan