Standard US English Dialect?

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:48 PM +0800 4/15/08, LanDi Liu wrote:

The vowel is definitely nasalized, but I'm not sure whether it's
*instead* of, or in addition to, a final [n].  There may also be
variation--I probably only notice it when it's in the more extreme
direction (i.e. the most different from my own pronunciation).

LH

>Sorry!  I mean "Does she", not "Do they" (I'm asking about your daughter).
>
>On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM, LanDi Liu <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Laurence Horn
>><laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>   >  I'll listen too,
>>   >  but they definitely lack anything as noticeable as my daughter (age
>>   >  23)'s Connecticutisms (e.g. the glottalizing of intervocalic /t/ in
>>   >  [kI?In], New [brI?In]).
>>   >
>>   >  LH
>>
>>   Do they also nasalize the /I/ instead of pronouncing the /n/?
>>
>>   --
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>>
>>  Randy Alexander
>>   Jilin City, China
>>
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>Randy Alexander
>Jilin City, China
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