Re: English syllable structure

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 03:24:49 EST Elliott Lash <AL260@...> writes:
>  "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...> writes:
> > Quoting And Rosta <a.rosta@...>:
> Hmm..../pAst@/ and /kOst@/ for me...a native New Yorker. Why does
> there seem to be an overwhelming tendency to think that there's ONE
> American pronunciation. You can make generalizations like the one
> you do in the above paragraph.
> And here we have proof that there's different Dialect and Accent
> groups in America. I say: "Costa" /kOst@/ "Coaster" /kowstr=/  "Cost
> of" /kOst@/ or /kOst Uv/
> And the sentence: [D@ kOst@ D@ fu:d s@praizd mi]
> Elliott
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Another native New Yorker, i say "Costa" (i assume as in "Costa Rica") as
/kowst@/, although since i've taken four and a half years of Spanish i
probably pronounce it /kosta/ with as much (if not more) frequency as my
native English style.  "Cost", like Elliot's, has a /O/ in my speech.


-Stephen (Steg)
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