Back Vowel Phonemes

[Beverly Flanigan]

Not just an idiolect--I share your system exactly, and it's the
oldtime/traditional Northern (I grew up in Minnesota in the '40s and
'50s).  But it is changing:  My Minnesota nieces, and esp. my great-nieces,
would rhyme all six words (or at least 5, maybe not 'lawn' yet) using
/a/.  The first 3 are all ) for me.

At 10:38 PM 9/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Probably an idiolect but:
>
>Shawn-Dawn-lawn
>rhyme; but not with:
>on-Hahn-Khan
>
>Allen
>maberry at u.washington.edu
>
>On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Nancy Elliott wrote:
>
> > Both!!! (including 'Sean')
> >
> > Nancy Elliott (go Jayhahks)
> >
> > > From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET>
> > > Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > > Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:11:16 -0400
> > > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> > > Subject: Re: Back Vowel Phonemes
> > >
> > >
> > > Which one rhymes?
> > >
> > > I got it on
> > > With Sean and Dawn
> > > Out on the lawn.
> > >
> > > I've carried on
> > > With Hillary Hahn
> > > And Genghis Khan.
> > >
> > > Or maybe both do? Or neither?
> > >
> > > (^_^)
> > >
> > > -- Doug
> > >
> > >
> >


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Beverly Olson Flanigan         Department of Linguistics
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