Palin's speech

[James Smith]

Is "gunna" the new "nucular"?

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--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

> From: Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
> Subject: Re: Palin's speech
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 7:39 AM
> On Sep 27, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> > A couple of trivial, FWIW comments on the LgLog piece.
> >
> > Abstracting away from the fact that "gonna"
> can represent a broad
> > range of phonetic reflexes, not necessarily only one,
> back in the day,
> > ca.1972-73, Haj Ross pointed out the creeping
> replacement of "gonna"
> > [gOn@] by "gunna" [g^n@] in informal white
> speech in a lecture at
> > M.I.T. It seems to me that this shift is continuing...
>
> yes, of course, "gonna" covers a variety of
> pronunciations.
>
> as for the [^] vowel, it's the one i have.
>
> arnold
>
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