stars and ours

[Sarah Lang]

As I just wrote to Dennis . . .

Could it have been the person from Georgia's speech? [I just remember
an argument, and now I'm worried it was "I" and "pie" or
something . . . but in the spirit of learning . . . (sorry to bother)]

Could the SAE speaker have monophthongized the diphthong /aɪ/ to [aː]?

[phonology naked-in-front-of-the-class nightmares, all over again]

Thanks,
S.



On May 31, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Marc Sacks wrote:

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> Sara Lang wrote:
>>
>> (I'm still happy I don't consider "my" and "eye" to
>> rhyme though--Brown's MFA poetry program was a very interesting study
>> in pronunciation.)
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> I'm afraid I'm completely baffled by this one; I can't imagine
> pronouncing
> either of those words so it doesn't rhyme with the other. Sara, can
> you
> illustrate these pronunciations somehow? Thanks.
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> Marc Sacks
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