"yo" (a slightly different example)

[Dennis R. Preston]

arnold,

I did a palatalization study not long ago (alas hanging around
unpublished) which showed no stylistic variation whatsoever;
surprised me, but makes me suspect that you are right; little or no
awareness of it (outside us crazy linguists).

dInIs



>dInIs, to/about doug wilson and his mojo "mowed yo":
>  >Aha! Finally a fellow palatalizer!
>
>doncha know it!  i suspect that we are all, sometimes, palatalizers,
>but that not all of us are aware of it.
>
>arnold

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