"didn't" with ?

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:47 PM -0400 10/9/06, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>On 10/9/06, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>>
>>Did we already have a discussion at some point about the
>>(innovative?) dialectal pronunciation of what we might call 'the
>>"didn't" of incredulity' as in "No, you (she, they) dI?In" (with
>>falling tone)?  I hear it on SNL or MadTV, but not in real life, and
>>it seems to express incredulity/amazement/scorn/..., along the lines
>>of 'I'm surprised that you (she, they) did'.  Anyone have a rough and
>>ready characterization of the phonetics and/or sociolinguistics of
>>this marker?
>
>There was discussion in Nov. 2004 under the subject line, "'di?nt'
>(with glottal stop)".
>
>http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0411c&L=ads-l&I=-3#4
>
Yup, that's the one.  Thanks, Ben.

Larry

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org