Standard US English Dialect?

Tue Apr 15 20:51:37 UTC 2008

Right, there's far more glottalizing (kitten ~ki'in, Britain ~Bri'in) going on in USA English than is realized.  Dictionaries should recognize it in the phonetic spelling.  The only one I know of that does so is the VOA dictionary redone as truespel book 3.

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

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> Poster: LanDi Liu
> Subject: Re: Standard US English Dialect?
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> Sorry! I mean "Does she", not "Do they" (I'm asking about your daughter).
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> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:47 PM, LanDi Liu  wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Laurence Horn  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
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>> Do they also nasalize the /I/ instead of pronouncing the /n/?
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>> Randy Alexander
>> Jilin City, China
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> Randy Alexander
> Jilin City, China
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