Re: CHAT: IPA Question
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 19:52 |
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Jake X scripsit:
> However, I am aware that this phoneme, which ranges from [u] to [U], changes
> as you enter the US Midwest, so that my Ohioan grandmother says [rUt] (for
> root)
> and [rUf] (for roof), while I say [rut] and [ruf].
But probably not [mUn] or [brUm] or [sUn]. The variation is highly lexicalized.
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