Labov on vowel shifts

[Herb Stahlke]

I'm with Wilson.  All of the contrasts Labov illustrated in that NPR
segment were clearly distinct sounds.

Herb

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> "do" and "dew" - can you hear the difference?"
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> Yes.
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