Standard US English Dialect?

[Paul Johnston]

I have [ba?@l] and [t at U?@l]--well, the /l/'s vocalized too, and I'm a
Jerseyite, so it's not too far away from Connecticut.  Seems common
in the NYC area.

Yours,
Paul Johnston
On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:49 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:

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> Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
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>> LH wrote:
>> ". . . 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])."
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>> Oh, so _that's how you describe that rather peculiar pattern!
>> Would you agree that bears some similarity to cockney?
>> dh
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> Yes, but in different contexts--around here "bottle" is never [ba?@l]
> (that I've noticed); that one just gets flapped.
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> LH
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