[hw-] v. [w]
Dennis Preston
preston at MSU.EDU
Tue Jul 31 16:46:46 UTC 2007
I have plenty of acoustic samples of /hw/ versus /w/ users; there is
no evidence whatsoever of a vocalic segment before the /w/ (which is
itself voiceless by the way; furthter evidence that it is not
intervocalic).
dInIs
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>I still contend it is -wh- , not -hw-, the -w- being a
>vowel (hence its name, double u), unstressed, often
>unvoiced, before the -h-. Being a native Utahn and
>Utah resident for 90% of my life (so far), it should
>be intersting to read David's research on this. [I do
>not put an -h- in -weird-, there is no -h- in -weird-,
>it's pronounced (ou)eared.]
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>--- David Bowie <db.list at PMPKN.NET> wrote:
>
>> From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
>>
>> > Tonight, on a TV cartoon show, "Family Man," I
>> think that it was, the
>> > characters kicked around the [hw-] v. lw]
>> pronunciations, with one of
>> > the [hw-]-speaking characters jokingly noting
>> that, e.g. [wip] in
>> > place of [hwip] sounded "wheird" [hwird].
>>
>> > [wip] in place of [hwip] doesn't sound "wheird,"
>> but it does sound
>> > weird. Well not really, though I'm a [hw-]
>> speaker.
>>
>> It makes sense that Stewie would use the hw, though,
>> since that's
>> apparently marked now in American English, and his
>> speech is nothing if
>> not marked.
>>
>> When this episode first aired, i was in the middle
>> of finishing up my
>> part of my ADS paper presentation which dealt with
>> <ta-da!> (h)w in
>> Utah. The timing was very hweird.
>>
>> --
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