Re: question on vowel tensing, fronting, backing, ect.
| From: | Reilly Schlaier <schlaier@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 2:06 |
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:13:58 -0500, li_sasxsek@NUTTER.NET wrote:
>I was born, raised and spent most of my life in SoCal (left in
>late '99). It's [-iN] there, but can still become [-In] in casual
>speech. Live in E. Tenn now where [-In] is much more common like
>in the inceptive marker /fIksInt@/.
i was just thinking about it and i say [In] for the
present/progressive "doin'" "sayin'" "seein'"
but have [iN] for words where it is already present "bring" "sing"