velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

Herb: 
Could you clarify your notation? i think you intend @ for script a, the low back unrounded vowel, V for wedge. Is that right?

-Matt


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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Herb Stahlke
Sent: Sat 3/7/2009 5:48 PM
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Subject:      Re: velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday
 
My SE Michigan variant of Inland Northern distinguishes raised and
lowered diphthong onsets.  This looks like Canadian Raising except
that in certain environments, including open syllables and before /d/
and /nd/, it's phonemic.  So I distinguish the following:

k at Ind  "variety, sort"
kVInd  "well-disposed"

r at Und  (preposition, as in "round the corner")
rVUnd  (adj., as in "round ball")

h at I  (greeting, "hello")
hVI  (adj., "high")

b at rd  "poet"
bVrd  "barred"

These contrasts cannot be captured a system based on broadcast AmE or
any other single dialect, unless, of course, it's mine.

Of course, SE Mich isn't unique.  Any regional or social dialect in
AmE has its own contrasts that require  phonemes distinct from some
putative standard.

Herb
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> The problem is that tradspel English is actually the oddly spelled one.  But we're all used to it.  Once the spelling of the 40 phonemes are learned one can read anything phonetically in the USA dialect it represents.  Other symbols are needed for the other languages and dialects.
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>> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 14:05:22 -0500
>> From: sagehen7470 at ATT.NET
>> Subject: Re: velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>> Poster: Alison Murie
>> Subject: Re: velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday
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>> I must assume that you preface each sentence with the ordinary English
>> spelling because you know that most people won't be able to read the
>> rather odd language that truespel apparently represents. That rather
>> suggests that its vaunted transparency has been overstated.
>> AM
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>> On Mar 7, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>>> ~! indicates my accent (at start and finish)
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>>> Tom, why don't you post using truespel
>>> ~!Taam, Wie doent yue poest yuezeeng truespel~!
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>>> Sure thing. I also would like to find a phonetic converter for IPA
>>> to show a comparison. Note that all accents vary.
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>>> ~!Sher thheeng. Ie aulsoe wood liek tue fiend u funnedik kunvverter
>>> for IPA tue shoe u kumppairisin. Noet that aul aksents vairee.~!
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>>> Basically if you run your finger along the phonemes and speak them,
>>> you are speaking as I speak.
>>> ~!Basiklee if yue run yer feenger ullaung thu foeneemz and speek
>>> them, yue aar speekeeng az Ie speek.~!
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>>> Note that stress is on the first syllable or after a double consonant.
>>> ~!Noet that stres iz aan thu ferst silubool or after u dubool
>>> kaansunint.~!
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>>> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>>> see truespel.com
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>>>> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 10:45:48 -0500
>>>> From: sagehen7470 at ATT.NET
>>>> Subject: Re: velarized /l/ and Billy Holiday
>>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>>>> Tom, why don't you post using truespel?
>>>> AM
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>>>> On Mar 7, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>>>>> I forgot Herb. Books are right and people are wrong. Thanks for
>>>>> the insight.
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