Labov on vowel shifts

[Tom Zurinskas]

If you didn't know that a renoun person was saying those two phonemes were different, would you say they were different?  I sure wouldn't.  Perhaps he meant to put a y-glide in "dew" but I didn't hear it.

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
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> I'm with Wilson.  All of the contrasts Labov illustrated in that NPR
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> Herb
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> 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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