Re: question on vowel tensing, fronting, backing, ect.
From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 21:13 |
On Dec 11, 2007 3:43 PM, David J. Peterson <dedalvs@...> wrote:
> Where are you from? This seems to be a general tendency of
> Southern Californian English, as is the [-in] pronunciations of
> "-ing".
>
I have [-iN] for -ing, and I've only rarely been to CA. Born in MA, raised
in GA.
In addition to that, the vowels in "bang" and "ban" are phonetically
> indistinguishable from the vowel in "bane". It seems to be a
> consequence of the nasal coda. However, the vowel in "Ben"
> was unaffected.
IML, "bang", "ban", and "bane" are three separate vowels. Well, the first
two are similar, but they feel different when I say them; I think it's just
the degree of diphthongalization. Before [N], /&/ is highly diphthongalized
via an offglide, to something like [&j], while before [n], it's only barely
so, practically a pure [&].
It's interesting to note that there *is* a distinction for some in
> the [N] final words with the low vowels. Marv Albert, for
> example. He pronounces words that end in "-ang" as [&N],
> but pronounces the last name of NBA player Luol Deng as
> [EN]. I pronounce his last name and "dang" identically.
I agree with Albert on this one. [dEN SaU piN]'s name does not rhyme with
[d&jN]. (Obviously that's the Anglicized pronunciation...)
--
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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