the Freedom Fricative

[Dennis R. Preston]

Yeah, imagine how irate us Hunkeys get when Kodaly and even Bartok
get syllable-final stress under this rule.

By the way, not one yet seems to have commented on the young women
who teaches "Overnmitt" (an Arby's ad character) to say 'au jus'.
Although she does not use a front-rounded vowel, she does not use the
final /s/ (which Ovenmitt does), and that appears to be the point of
her repetitions.

Interestingly, however, the voice over which follows this linguistic
lesson still notes that we should try this stuff "with au jus."

Phonology first; lexicon next appears to be the rule.

dInIs



>At 8:55 AM -0500 12/5/03, David Bowie wrote:
>>From:    Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>>: At 8:55 AM -0500 12/4/03, Steve Boatti wrote:
>>:: In a message dated 12/3/03 11:06:27 PM, Bapopik at aol.com writes:
>>
>>:::  (GOOGLE)
>>:::  http://eat.epicurious.com/dictionary/food/index.ssf?DEF_ID=1895
>>:::  gianduja
>>:::  [zhahn-DOO-yah]
>>
>>:: The Italian pronunciation of "gianduja" is "jahn-DOO-yah," not
>>:: "zhahn-DOO-yah."
>>
>>: Hyperforeignism (the Ta"ZH" Majal/Bei"ZH"ing Syndrome) strikes again!
>>: That old Freedom Fricative just keeps popping up, doesn't it?
>>
>>I don't know if this is necessarily hyperforeignism--some of us simply have
>>rampant [Z]s where others might have [dZ]s.
>>
>Well, the term "hyperforeignism", admittedly not self-explanatory, is
>motivated by the idea that such speakers are generalizing the fact
>that French words/names have the [Z] fricative to the practice of
>spreading this [Z] to other foreign names, even when the language in
>question has no [Z].  So the use of [Z] in Beijing, Taj Mahal,
>Gianduja, etc., is not attributable to a fact about either English or
>of Mandarin/Hindi(?)/Italian, but ultimately to a fact about French
>(and about English speakers' treatment of French as the foreign
>language par excellence and/or the prestige foreign language).
>
>larry