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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Travis Bemann</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:tabemann@gmail.com">tabemann@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Phonology" 2008.06.12 (02) [E<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">
> From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Phonology<br>
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</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="Ih2E3d">> So I believe the name Shakespeare was pronounced [ˈʃæːkspeːɹ] at the time<br>
> (cf. modern [ˈʃɛɪkspɪɹ], [ˈʃɛɪkspiɝ], [ˈʃeɪkspɪə], [ˈʃæɪkspɪə], etc.).<br>
><br>
> Many Canadian speakers have monophthong [eː] as an equivalent of the said<br>
> sound (thus saying [ˈʃeːkspɪɹ], I guess). On the US side, too, many speakers<br>
> [eː] or [ɛː] in names like "Australia".<br>
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</div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The above actually applies to a lot of North American English</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
dialects, including many Upper Midwestern and Californian dialects.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
For instance, here "Shakespeare" would be [ˈʃeʔksʲpʲɪːʁ] or</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
[ˈʃeʔksʲpiːʁ̩ː] (X-SAMPA: ["Se?ks'p'I:R] or ["Se?ks'pi:R=:]). (Note</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
the vowel length is different from in the Canadian case, and at least</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
from one Canadian from Ontario I've talked to, they still have limited</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
preservation of historical English vowel length up there.)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">