Hallucinating distinctions (was New Jersey Dialects)

[Dennis R. Preston]

Careful. She may be closer than you think, producing the bulk of
nasalization on the vowel rather than in a fully realized nasal
segment.

dInIs

>I have a student who swears that she pronounces "thanks" as "thanxs" -
>analogous to "axed" for "asked"
>- so far, I have not persuaded her that she does not. (She does not.)
>
>Bethany


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