entertaining dialect

Alice Faber faber at POP.HASKINS.YALE.EDU
Wed Mar 1 04:58:17 UTC 2000


>In a message dated 2/29/2000 4:10:44 PM, Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM writes:
>
><< I meant "acoustically distinguishable [in a way that would entertain
>outlanders]". >>
>
>well there is certainly something entertaining about the upper-Midwestern /o/

I dunno...my psycholinguistics students are most entertained by the New
York City /oh/ (as in CAUGHT).

Alice Faber



More information about the Ads-l mailing list