[Ads-l] Can anybody help me place this diphthongization in the American South?

[Catherine Davies]

Southern diphthongized pronunciation of [æ]  so that it sounds like [ai]?  I was just asked this by a Southerner who said that the word "laugh" sounded like "life" and "ass" sounded like "ice."  She said that she thought the person might be from Virginia.  

Thanks--
Catherine

Catherine Evans Davies
Professor Emerita of Linguistics
The Department of English
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
cdavies at ua.edu

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