Description of "Filefia" speech in the Times

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/opinion/sunday/the-sound-of-philadelphia-fades-out.html
>
> Mostly concerned with phonology, especially vowels, which are somewhat randomly described.
> (Apparently the pronuncation of "soda" as "sewda" involves rounding.  Hard to believe.)  But
> positive "anymore" makes a couple of appearances.

Here's Josef Fruehwald, who worked with Labov et al. on the Philly
dialect research:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10853

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