Re: question on vowel tensing, fronting, backing, ect.
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 13, 2007, 8:45 |
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Daniel Prohaska wrote:
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> Mark,
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> 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
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