Cold Mountain

[Natalie Maynor]

Beverly said:
>   I learned something from your comment though:  I
> didn't realize the Southern monophthong 'I' is [a] and not the low back
> 'script a'!  I'll listen more carefully next time ([tam], right?)!

I just remembered that I've had a sample of a monophthongal "I" on my
web page for ages.  I think this is the right file:
http://www2.msstate.edu/~maynor/hi.wav
If that doesn't work, go to http://www2.msstate.edu/~maynor/ and click
on something like "a genuine monophthongal [aI] for curious yankees."
   --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)