Southern Implosives and recordings

[Greg Pulliam]

I am certainly aware of this allophone, but only use it myself when
I'm emphasizing my southern dialect.

As for recordings, I might suggest picking up something by stand-up
comic Bill Engvall--he's from Dallas, and does quite a lot of
material in east Texas dialect.  When I was working in clubs, I heard
his act 40 or 50 times, and I'm pretty sure you'll hear this feature
in his speech.  I've seen one or two of his cassette tapes in
Coconuts recently.


>RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>>
>>  My local phonetician/Southern dialect specialist writes:
>>
>>  <<I don't think there's any truth to the Southern implosive theory.
>>  At least, I've never heard a Southern stop that sounded especially
>>  implosive.>>
>>
>>  No scientist wants to say "never" without exhaustively examining the topic,
>>  however. Does anyone have any good-quality recordings that might be used to
>>  confirm or disconfirm the implosive hypothesis?
>
>If I understood the description correctly, I hear implosives in the word "boy"
>in a sort of Southern cop disciplinary tone.  But I may have the description
>wrong.
>
>Andrea
>--
>Andrea Vine, avine at eng.sun.com, Sun-Netscape Alliance i18n architect
>"So I just don't see this as an either-or issue as much as an apples
>are yummy, and oranges are yummy, too, issue, and every now and then
>fruit salad is tasty." -- Matthew Wall

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Greg