oxen / dachshund

[Mai Kuha]

Thanks to both of you for listening to it. I'm sure you must be right,
though I confess I'm still not hearing quite a script a, even after
listening repeatedly to IPA vowel sound files. I'll work on developing a
better ear for these distinctions sometime when I have time. (With any luck,
by then some more vowels will have merged!)

-Mai

> I just played it too, and I agree with Matt that both words had just plain
> old /a/ (script a, that is).  I also don't hear anything particularly
> Southern or Western.
>
> At 05:59 PM 2/12/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>> I listened to the commercial thanks to the link Mai posted, and I didnt'
>> think the /a/ was particularly frontish. It's definitely unrounded but
>> nowhere close to /ae/ at least to my ears, and as someone blessed with the
>> 'cot/caught' merger, I'm fairly sensitive to fronted /a/'s.