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Re: question on vowel tensing, fronting, backing, ect.

From:R A Brown <ray@...>
Date:Thursday, December 13, 2007, 8:45
Daniel Prohaska wrote:
> > > Mark, > > You are partially correct post vocalic Middle English post vocalic /r/ is > replaced in English English (most varieties except the rhotic ones), > NZ/AUS/SA English and Welsh English by the preceding vowel with compensatory > lengthening.
When I lived in Wales from from 1968 till 1980 this was _not_ so, except along the coastal plain of the southeast from the border to Cardiff, where, for example, 'Cardiff' is pronounced [k_hE:dIf]. But elsewhere, i.e. in the larger of Wales, post vocalic /r/ was a trilled consonant, usually apically trilled, but the uvular trill was found among among some north Walians. As far as I am aware from annual visits to the principality nothing much has changed in the 17 years since I moved back to south east England. -- Ray ================================== http://www.carolandray.plus.com ================================== Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitudinem.

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