Re: north american pronunciation
- From: "Aaron J. Dinkin" <dinkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 14:45:46 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:51:16 GMT, Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The only vowel I know of that I lack is [A.], the low, back,
rounded vowel that English English has in "cot".
The only vowel _of English_ that you know of that you lack?
And I will continue to believe that no American English speaker uses
that vowel until I *hear* evidence to the contrary.
There's a little bit of a fallacy in saying "[A.], the low back rounded
vowel that English English has in 'cot'". By which I mean: I'm pretty
sure you're right that no American accent uses the same vowel which is
characteristic of standard English English "cot". But it doesn't follow
that no American accent uses [A.], simply because the vowel space is
continuous. Any rounded vowel in the entire low back region of the vowel
space is designatable with [A.]. The [A.] in English English "cot" is
more or less in the high back corner of the [A.] region and very short. I
have a vowel in "cot" that is also best describable as [A.], but it's
lower, longer, and a little fronter than the English English [A.].
-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom
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