Elm

Rudolph C Troike rtroike at U.ARIZONA.EDU
Wed May 30 08:36:34 UTC 2001


dInIs:

        Your pronunciation is half-way on the way to a wonderful one my
cousin from East Texas used, which gave validity to ordered phonological
rules: she pronounced it /Im/.

        Obviously [Elm] --> [E at m]  --> [Em]  --> [Im]

I've always assumed that she must have heard it originally as [Em] and her
internal vowel neutralization rule changed that to [Im].

        Rudy



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