Back Vowel Phonemes
TERRY IRONS
t.irons at MOREHEAD-ST.EDU
Mon Sep 18 09:24:33 UTC 2000
I am currently working on a project that involves acoustic analysis of
low back vowels in a regional variety of English. As I move toward
plotting of F1/F2 values, using a Labovian approach, I need to make some
decisions regarding how to treat a subset of my data phonemically.
All of the tokens vary, of course, but I have been able to place several
items clearly into the ) category phonemically and the a category
phonemically.
The following set also all vary (which is indicated in major
dictionaries, such as AHDE Edition 1):
dog, lost, horror, on, upon, water, wash
My query is, what vowel would you consider to be the underlying phoneme
in each case, ) or a? (I know, I know, choice of phoneme may depend upon
idiolect, but remember that I am assuming a Labovian paradigm to
facilitate one approach to studying change.)
Virtually, Terry
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Terry Lynn Irons t.irons at morehead-st.edu
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