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[Mark Mandel]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:04 PM, LanDi Liu <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:

>  And if you're American, you probably say "man" and "male" with the same
>  vowel sound -- "man" with a tensed ash, and "male" the same way, but you
>  also probably consider "man" to have a short a sound, and "male" to have a
>  long a sound.  If you say them that way (and I do), you are using the same
>  sound in two different phonemes.

I don't. Sounds like you have prenasal raising, typical of many but
hardly most Americans' dialects.

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Mark Mandel

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