Re: Phoneme winnowing continues
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 6, 2003, 10:38 |
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 07:16:57AM +1000, Tristan McLeay wrote:
> At least in Melbourne, everyone has a long vowel in the same words (e.g.
> bag, sag, sad, ban, lamb) and a short vowel in the same words (e.g. dad,
> had, can, bat). Words like 'dowry' are often pronounced [d&:ri].
It's always bugged me that the vowel in "bag" and "sag" is considered to be
the same as the one in "bad", "sad", "ban", etc. In my idiolect,
for whatever reason, that g changes things, and the /&/ gets realized
as a diphthong, something like [&E], but a bit higher and tenser.
-Mark
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