Re: [ADS-L] Pronunciation question (from L. Urdang)

[Charles Doyle]

Ron (whose students also say Dook University), you have captured my (~Southern) pronunciation of "didn't" pretty well--except I may not always have the final [t].

--Charlie


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>Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:02:03 EDT
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>In a message dated 5/29/07 10:23:17 AM, t-irons at MOREHEAD-ST.EDU writes:
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>> I have noticed the change in the pronunciation of the contracted n't
>> at the end of aux verbs among especially younger speakers but had not
>> been able to figure out exactly what the change is.=A0 I think he has it
>> right.=A0 What is something like a syllabic /n/ for me has evolved into
>> a full schwa.
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>No one has mentioned that "didn't" has often been pronunced with a glottal=20
>stop allophone of the /d/. My sense is that I am hearing this less among the=
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>young, with an unvoiced /d/ instead. I wonder if this is what Larry is notic=
>ing.
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>Also, I don't hear a schwa so much as a barred-I. So what I am hearing is=20
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>[dItInt] (unaspirated [t])
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>rather than=20
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>[dI?Int].
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>Of course, I am in the South (but the majority of my students) are not. By=20
>the way, they don't say
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>[studIns} or [stju?ns] only [studns].
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>It is perhaps worth pointing out that "Oh no you didn't!" is a kind of buzz=20
>phrase among the young, patterned (I think) after some television comedy ski=
>t=20
>pseudo-Puerto-Rican pronunciation.=20
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