Re: question on vowel tensing, fronting, backing, ect.
| From: | Reilly Schlaier <schlaier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 11, 2007, 22:19 |
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:43:23 -0800, David J. Peterson
<dedalvs@...> wrote:
> >>
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>Where are you from? This seems to be a general tendency of
>Southern Californian English, as is the [-in] pronunciations of
>"-ing".
>
>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.
>
wel im from central california (lodi)
but "bang" and "ban" have different vowels [e] and [&]
though "bane" has [e]
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