online accent quiz

[Dennis R. Preston]

Tom,.

Not quite; since aspect is the phonological componenet of dialect,
your monsieur from Indianapolis won't quite cut it.

Please refer to former conceted efforts to change language. The
caught-cot distinction will go, and our grandchildren will not be
linguistic dummies for the loss.

dInIs (who, as you notice, does very well with I-E conflation beore nasals)



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>Thanks Dennis,
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>So one could have a French accent and a midwestern dialect?  Sounds possible
>if you go by your categorizations.
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>Regards awe-dropping, it may be hopeless without a concerted effort to
>change it.  The more the alphabetical principle takes a beating the harder
>English is to learn.
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>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
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>>From: "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU>
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>>Subject: Re: online accent quiz
>>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:04:48 -0500
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>>Westerners, most Canadians, some Midlanders, some Southerners, many
>>New Englanders, many African Americans -- ain't no hope for the
>>cot-caught distinction. Now you all know how I feel about
>>horse-hoarse and which-witch.
>>
>>"Accent" is usually the term among dialectologists reserved for the
>>phonetic-phonological aspects of dialect or "dialect pronunciation."
>>"Foreign accent" or the name of the L1 (e.g., "French accent")
>>usually keeps this clear. I ain't real fond of it since 'accent' for
>>stress is also around.
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>>dInIs
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>>  >Someone said to think of "accent" as being from a non-native English
>>speaker
>>  >and "dialect" being from a native English talker.
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>>  >Apparently it's the westerners who are doing the "merging" of vowels
>>here.
>>  >There are a lot of westerners getting into the media and that is creating
>>a
>>  >lot of ah-dropping.  Not good.
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>>  >Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL4+
>>  >See truespel.com and the 4 truespel books at authorhouse.com.
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>>  >>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>>  >>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:38:36 -0500
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>>  >>for those of you who can't remember where you're from but do remember
>>  >>how you pronounce your vowels...
>>  >>http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have
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>>  >>LH
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Dennis R. Preston
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