Palin's speech

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 27, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> A couple of trivial, FWIW comments on the LgLog piece.
>
> Abstracting away from the fact that "gonna" can represent a broad
> range of phonetic reflexes, not necessarily only one, back in the day,
> ca.1972-73, Haj Ross pointed out the creeping replacement of "gonna"
> [gOn@] by "gunna" [g^n@] in informal white speech in a lecture at
> M.I.T. It seems to me that this shift is continuing...

yes, of course, "gonna" covers a variety of pronunciations.

as for the [^] vowel, it's the one i have.

arnold

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