Back Vowel Phonemes
Arnold Zwicky
zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Tue Sep 19 20:38:32 UTC 2000
normally i wouldn't do this, but the original poster wanted to group
words into something like "historophonemes", and in this case i
think the vowel shifts and diffusions have spread from different
sources in different directions, in such a way that this sort of
grouping is no longer practicable. there are dozens of patterns
for the distribution of /a/ and /)/ in different words. here's
mine, with different vowels in ON and UPON:
dog = )
lost = )
horror = a
on = )
upon = a
water = )
wash = a
frog = a ~ ) (a predominant, i think)
[cf. dog, and cog = a]
watch = a
swatch = a
toss = )
(southeastern pennsylvania, born 1940)
yet another pattern, i believe.
arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
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