Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")

On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 02:00:27PM -0800, jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> On the contrary, I find [IN] to be illegal, and
> "ying," sing," "ring," etc. all have [i].  But all of my vowels misbehave
> before [N]--"hang" is [hE~N], *not* [h&~N], as some people have it.
I still don't know how to classify /{N/ (that's X-SAMPA for your /&N/) and /{g/
in my idiolect/dialect. I just know that the vowel in both of those combos
is the same, and that it is not exactly [{] and not exactly [E]. I think it
has some sort of off-glide, but I don't know exactly what it is. Maybe
something like [{i].

My dialect is from southern Wisconsin, in case anyone
was wondering; one time I was listening to the radio when a woman called in,
and the DJ (apparently an Illinoisan) said he could tell she was from
Wisconsin because of how she pronounced /{g/. I have noticed other people
around here using a more straightforward [{g] or maybe [{:g], but the
difference doesn't seem to have anything to do with what side of the state
line they're from.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo