ont/ahnt

[David Wake]

Can you offer a minimal pairs for these dialects?  E.g. "con"/"Kahn",
perhaps?  I thought that, with the exception of Eastern New England,
these dialects would all use their LOT vowel (rounded or unrounded)
for both lexical sets.

D

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu> wrote:
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> Most dialects where the LOT class is a low back ROUNDED vowel will pronounce ont and ahnt differently, particularly because of the /n/ after it-- Eastern New England, the area from Erie PA through Pittsburgh down into West Virginia and into Kentucky, several Upper Southern dialects, Canada--in Eastern New England, the difference should be really striking: [D] (I mean the IPA symbol for a low back rounded vowel here) vs. a front [a:].
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> On Oct 6, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>> At 10/5/2010 08:49 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:45 PM, David Wake <dwake at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>>>> "ont"
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>>> In most dialects of AmE, "ont" = "ahnt."
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>> Can you give me some examples where it doesn't?  And please don't say
>> you won't.
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>> Joel
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