entertaining dialect

[Dennis R. Preston]

"One person's phonetic entertainment is another's unconscious everyday
practice."

dInIs (said, quoting his own self)



>>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


Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1027 USA
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