Pronunciation question (from L. Urdang)

[Charles Doyle]

Sorry, I wasn't finished editing and cleaning up that last posting.  I meant that [dI?Int] pretty much matches my pronunciation, with the final [t] optional.

--Charlie
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>Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:02:03 EDT

>From: RonButters at AOL.COM
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>No one has mentioned that "didn't" has often been pronunced with a glottal stop allophone of the /d/. My sense is that I am hearing this less among the young, with an unvoiced /d/ instead. I wonder if this is what Larry is noticing.
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>Also, I don't hear a schwa so much as a barred-I. So what I am hearing is=20
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>[dItInt] (unaspirated [t])
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>rather than
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>[dI?Int].
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>Of course, I am in the South (but the majority of my students) are not. By the way, they don't say
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>[studIns} or [stju?ns] only [studns].
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>It is perhaps worth pointing out that "Oh no you didn't!" is a kind of buzz phrase among the young, patterned (I think) after some television comedy skit pseudo-Puerto-Rican pronunciation.

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