"au jus" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Jan 25, 2012, at 8:04 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:

> At 1/25/2012 10:38 AM, Geoff Nathan wrote:
>> Not to mention 'as you know...', 'where's your father' and similar.
>> Of course they're probably not *underlying* /zh/, but they're
>> certainly produced with voiced palato-alveolar fricatives all the time.
>
> Not by me -- neither all the time or ever, I think -- at least for
> the latter.  (For example, "where's your" sounds different to me from
> "azure" when I say them.)  But I've been called pretentious here.
>
as in "I'm not speaking azure pal, I'm speaking azure dad"?

LH

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