> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> > 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.
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@/.