On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:46:49AM -0500, E. Notagain wrote:
> My pronunciation of vowels (as a nasally northern Ohio resident) is such:
Mmm, that's closer to my idiolect I guess. :-)
> >/i/ greet
> >/I/ bid
> >/}/ root
> >/u/ lute
>
> Root and lute rhyme.
Yep. They are both [u] as far as I can tell.
> >/U/ book
>
> Book is pronounced with kind of a combination @U or @8.
To me it's [U].
> >/ei/ crate, often reducing to /e/ gr'ea'test
> >/8/ road
> >/ou/ phone
>
> Road and phone have the same sound -- more /ou/.
Yep.
> >/@/ run
> >/E/ bed
> >/O/ saw
> >/{/ bad
> >/{u/ cloud
> >/{U_G/ cow
>
> Cloud and cow have the same sound.
That's [au] for me.
> >/a/ f'a'ther
> >/A/ pond
>
> >/r\/ bitt'er'
> >/L\/ litt'le'
>
> Not too sure where that /L\/ came from -- it's a definite /l/ here.
It's probably syllabic L, [l=].
> >/n/ mitt'en'
>
> My personal pronunciation of the three above words has a @U sound before
> the final consonant (ie: mIt@Un rather than mIt@n), however, a friend says
> a kind of aU...
[snip]
?? [aU] for the vowel in 'mitten'? That seems rather odd.
T
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