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

Adrian Morgan wrote:

> (3) The sound in moon/you/true/do/universe/suitcase is completely
>     different in every respect from (1), (2) and [w]. AFAICT it is
>     frequent in all dialects that I know of, including British, American
>     and Australian dialects. (I don't listen to American dialects
>     regularly.)
No American dialect AFAIK has anything like this: "school" and
"moon" have exactly the same vowel, [u].

> I've heard visiting Americans claim that we tend to say 'noi' for 'no',
> but that's obviously just an overactive imagination on their part :-)
Well, it's about as accurate as the claim that people from New York City
say [Tojd] for "third" and ]@:st@] for "oyster".  In fact they
say [T@id] and [@jst@].  I OTOH was born outside the NYC isogloss
bundle and say [TR=d] and [OjstR=] (where R= means "syllabic bunched
vowel") like a typical rhotic speaker.

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