Hockey

[Tom Zurinskas]

Canadian speakers and other dialects can be heard at the web site "The
Iternational Dialects of English Archives" IDEA.

http://web.ku.edu/idea/

Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
See truespel.com.  The 4 truespel books and "Occasional Poems" are at
authorhouse.com.





>From: James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
>Reply-To: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Hockey
>Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:29:01 -0400
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>Poster:       James Harbeck <jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA>
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> >I wasn't disputing your last claim, that there's no real distinction
> >between Canadian 'hawkey' and 'hockey'; my understanding is that they are
> >indeed merged.
>
>Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you were. I was just giving that
>info for the sake of contrast.
>
> >However, it seems to me that the vowel isn't really script
> >a but is rather somewhat farther back and slightly rounder, but not as
>back
> >and round as open o--on a continuum somewhere between script a and open
> >o.  By the way, as a Minnesotan, I also have the same centralized
>diphthong
> >in 'right' and 'write', though perhaps not quite as far back as you do.
>
>I think you're right, at least for some Canadians; there can be a
>little variation in the location of that vowel between local
>dialects. I think some work has been done in mapping the sounds in
>Canadian English, but I doubt I could find a link to send. In spite
>of my presenting the Canadian dialect as rather homogeneous, there
>are certainly small variations. For instance, where I grew up
>(southern Alberta), "Canadian raising" on the [au] diphthong before
>unvoiced consonants (oy, I forgot to say that that one also gets [a]
>in it) was not a notable feature, but in much of southern Ontario it
>is. But the raising on [ai] that you describe before unvoiced
>consonants was certainly present there as here.
>
>James Harbeck.
>
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