Standard US English Dialect?

LanDi Liu strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM
Tue Apr 15 13:48:40 UTC 2008


Sorry!  I mean "Does she", not "Do they" (I'm asking about your daughter).

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM, LanDi Liu <strangeguitars at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>  >  I'll listen too,
>  >  but they definitely lack anything as noticeable as my daughter (age
>  >  23)'s Connecticutisms (e.g. the glottalizing of intervocalic /t/ in
>  >  [kI?In], New [brI?In]).
>  >
>  >  LH
>
>  Do they also nasalize the /I/ instead of pronouncing the /n/?
>
>  --
>
>
> Randy Alexander
>  Jilin City, China
>



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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China

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